Hello, On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 01:01:57PM -0500, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > On 12/15/2010 02:31 AM, Frank Fegert wrote: > >>> Exiting to a shell shows the following partition layout: > >>> ~ # /target/sbin/sfdisk -l > >>> Disk /dev/sda: 16384 cylinders, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track > >>> Units = cylinders of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from > >>> 0 > >>> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > >>> /dev/sda1 1 10 10 10240 41 PPC PReP Boot > >>> /dev/sda2 11 964 954 976896 83 Linux > >>> /dev/sda3 965 16382 15418 15788032 8e Linux LVM > >>> /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > > Are these partitions created manually? PPC PReP boot partition should be > between 4-8 MB, not bigger than 10MB. It also has to be a primary > partition and marked active/bootable. This one is not marked bootable.
yes, those partitions were created manually, but this was already the
second try. On the first try i chose "Guided - use entire disk and set
up LVM" which created the 8MB PPC PReP partition which was also marked
bootable. Even then i got the same "Apple_Bootstrap" error message.
> If you want to use LVM you will have to put /boot on second primary
> partition (sda2) and copy yaboot.conf from /etc/yaboot.conf to
> /boot/etc/yaboot.conf at the end of installation procedure (right before
> installer reboots the machine). Sorry, yaboot-installer development was
> stalled for last 5 years.
I did that a bit differently with the already running 5.0.x LPARs by
sticking the whole "/" into /dev/sda2.
> > the ISOs i used for previous installs were debian-500-powerpc-netinst.iso
> > and debian-504-powerpc-netinst.iso, both worked as far as the install is
> > concerned. There were some yaboot issues with getting the successfully in-
> > stalled system to boot (see my previous postings to the list).
>
> Could you please do clean install on one disk with no lvm, no raid, no
> manual partitioning. Just choose "Guided - use entire disk," and then
> "All files in one partition."
>
> If you hit an error screen, download all install logs, pack them and
> send with your report. When you test official install CD, submit
> official installation-report or bug report. We can discuss unofficial
> install CD issues in this mailing list.
Despite the "All files in one partition." still the same error as before,
see attached log files.
> Thank you for the extra info you collected from the installer. The nvram
> info you sent is useful, boot-device was set to network boot. I'm
> collecting content of boot-device and diag-device variables from nvram
> on various configurations. Currently I need the most those that are set
> to boot Linux or AIX installed in any LPAR, especially if they boot from
> a virtual drive provided by VIOS. Can you get output of /sbin/nvsetenv
> from already running Linux installations that you have around?
See below.
Thanks & best regards,
Frank
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# /sbin/nvsetenv
little-endian?=false
real-mode?=true
auto-boot?=true
diag-switch?=false
fcode-debug?=true
oem-banner?=false
oem-logo?=false
use-nvramrc?=false
ibm,fw-new-mem-def=true
ibm,fw-show-true-pcie?=false
ibm,fw-force-ior=false
ibm,fw-oflite-dbg=false
ibm,fw-prev-boot-vpd=
ibm,fw-override-cas=false
real-base=c00000
virt-base=ffffffff
virt-size=ffffffff
screen-#columns=64
screen-#rows=28
selftest-#megs=0
boot-file=
diag-file=diag
oem-banner=
oem-logo=
nvramrc=
boot-command=boot
reboot-command=
menu?=false
ibm,dasd-spin-interval=5
output-device=/vdevice/v...@30000000
input-device=/vdevice/v...@30000000
boot-device=/vdevice/v-s...@30000002/d...@8100000000000000
/vdevice/l-...@30000004:speed=auto,duplex=auto,000.000.000.000,,000.000.000.000,000.000.000.000,5,5,000.000.000.000,512
diag-device=/vdevice/v-s...@30000002/d...@8100000000000000
/vdevice/l-...@30000004:speed=auto,duplex=auto,000.000.000.000,,000.000.000.000,000.000.000.000,5,5,000.000.000.000,512
real-size=1000000
ibm,fw-find-tape-alias=false
ibm,fw-find-cdrom-alias=false
ibm,fw-tty-language=1
ibm,fw-keyboard=1
load-base=4000
boot-once=
ibm,fw-nbr-reboots=0
squeeze-netinst-on-power6.tar.bz2
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