On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:15:13PM -0500, Mike Martin wrote: > I can boot with this image: > http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd
Cool. > And things seems to go very well. Network configures, hard drives > partition, it dies at "Install the base system" with "The debootstrap > program exited with an error (return value 255)." It instructs me to > check /var/log/messages which now contains: "execv: No such file or > directory" Strange, can you check at what percentage of "install base system" this error happned ? can you attach the full /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog ? Mmm, CCing debian-boot as this seems more relevant there.@ > The previous step, partitioning, added: > "No matching physical volumes found > No volume groups found > Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while..." > > Anyone? > > MikeMartin > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:57:58 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:30:25PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > [del] > > > >I would prefer that we fix the debian kernels for them to work correctly > > > >though. More on this on monday. > > > > > > I failed to configure a stock 2.4.28 kernel to detect the SCSI controler. > > > I think some of Leigh patches for this must be applied, but I haven't > > > gone any further. > > > > I had some report on a power3 box, that only the SMP sym53c8xx driver > > worked. > > When configuring in UP mode, > > > > > [del] > > > >Do the debian 2.4.27 kernel work on it ? I was unable to boot the 2.4.27 > > > >d-i > > > >kernel on my powerstack, but this is a different machine, so the issues > > > >may be > > > >a bit different. > > > > > > I've only tried the Woody PREP kernel, which failed in a way which I can't > > > remember, but I'll give it a try. > > > > Yes, please, i would greatly appreciate it, preferably the 2.6.8 kernel too. > > Let' try to get this fixed before the sarge release, which is not so far off > > now. Friendly, Sven Luther
