On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:07:31AM -0500, Mike Martin wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:01:02 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > What exact machine do you have again ? > > An IBM 7043. It's a 43p-140 labeled as a 604e 332 Mhz.
Well, prep_pci.c does know about : IBM RS/6000 7043-240 (ibm_doral) IBM RS/6000 7024-E30 As far as IBM boxes are concerned. Doe the -140 have stuff in common with leigh's -240 (the -140 being mono-cpu while the -240 being dual ?). > [snip] > > > > > set <minor> <flag> <on|off> > > > > minor is the partition, starting at 1, flag is the flag, (prep in this case) > > and on|off is obvious. > > > > It simply sets the prep flag, which is then translated as a 0x41 partition > > type. I think this is a deficiency in the parted/libparted API, but well, > > there is not much we can do about that unless a major libparted change. > > Cool. That's good to know. It was added recently though. > > Yep, d-i uses devfs, still partitions start at 1. > > Ok. Oops > > > > I see how much more time I can buy with this machine. It may need to > > > go back into storage this week if I can't make it run. Not fun. > > > > What about donating it to debian or something such ? > > I'd love to however it's not mine to donate. It's the companies (They > have 2 actually, I might try the other one since it has slightly > different hardware). Well, you could argue that donating one might make the other one usefull :) > The problem is: at work, I can't netboot. There is no server that will > respond and I can't set one up. I had the machine at home for the > holidays and thus can boot it from my LAN. If I can't get it to > self-boot before I have to take it back to the office - then I'm > stuck. Ok, understandable, still, getting it to netboot would be a first step to getting it working right later. > If I can get it to boot the system (even from floppy or cd) I will > have it to help test stuff. Otherwise it goes back under the desk > where it came from. Understandable too. What is the deadline ? I built a d-i kernel with the powerstack2 - utah pci irq patch, and it now works fine here. Still some work is needed, but basically this means i can scratch the disk on the box, and do some real d-i development, bringing in the partman-prep patch, and maybe even building a prep-installer that does the needed stuff to make it self-boot. I think you have to give your box back by monday next week though, right ? this could be too short, but let's see if we can make something happen. Right now, there are two issues : 1) the kernel may have some irq problems, or some other patching may be needed. 2) partman-prep is not included in d-i. 3) there is no automated prep-installer in d-i. Watch out on : http://people.debian.org/~luther/prep for uploads i make. Friendly, Sven Luther
