On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:24:44AM +0300, Gasha wrote: > Hi list, > > just a short introduction... > i'm a long time unix/linux user, and finally decided to join some > linux development mailing lists. > > recently we got new Power7 machine, and i tried > latest-squeeze-netinst.iso yesterday. > LPAR install. no luck, cannot boot fresh install. > after 2-3 hours of fiddling, i noticed, that Elf32 kernel is being > loaded, which ends with tons of errors.
Yes, there is a bug. The test in the base-installer package is absurdly specific; it recognizes only specific Power CPUs as being 64-bit, rather than matching on "power*", which would make more sense. > booting install64 and expert64 installs powerpc-smp kernel (32-bit) > rescue64 boots correct (64-bit) kernel. Interesting... > tried to install manually 64-bit kernel, but it did not boot anyway :( What error did you get? Were you booting using yaboot? > question to list: > which image should be good starting point to get one linux LPAR running ? > then i can do some more testing. > > started to download this one: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-dvd/ I don't know where you would get a good image for Power7, I'm sorry. Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110727103010.gb13...@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com
