Hi Richard, On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 22:51 -0600, Richard Allen wrote: > I tried these on my Dual-processor PCI-X G5. > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test-new/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > Both behaved the same way. Got to the installer menu, I choose an install > mode, > showed "loading..." for approximately 1 minute bit, then showed normal > messages like > 'Quiescing OpenFirmware...' and 'Booting Linux via __start()', and within 1 > second Linux printed: > > smp_core99_probe > smp_core99_kick_cpu > smp_core99_kick_cpu_done > smp_core99_bringup_done > > but after that nothing more. After 1-2 minutes the fans spun up fully. After > 3-5 minute I gave > up and held power button to power down. > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2024-02-25/ > > This one got to the four smp_core99_* messages, but the fans did not spin up. > I waited 12 minutes > but the screen did not update.
Thanks for the confirmation. So my tests with QEMU accurately emulate the behavior of a real G5 which means I can debug the problem much easier. The interesting bit is the kernel in question works fine when installing it later instead of booting from CD, so it might not be a kernel issue after all. However, I can no clue yet what may have changed in either debian-installer or debian-cd to break the installation CD. I will need to perform more debugging. > Is there anything I can help to diagnose from my end? Not at the moment. I need to perform more tests to figure out what went wrong. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
