Re: debian-installer on ppc64
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-14 11:22]: | > 3. No fdisk found. For some reason only mac-fdisk was available in the | >install image. | | Same as above, d-i doesn't support subarches yet. That said, parted | should be available, and normally you should be able to use partitioner | and/or autopartkit transparently. What partitioning scheme are your box | using ? maybe partitioner should try to execute fdisk, and if this failes, it should start parted? As a minimum fallback? Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.
Sven! * Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-14 10:55]: [...] thanks for the good job. Hopping it will escape from NEW asap :-) Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
IBM RS/6000 B50 problems
Hi PowerPC gurus :-) I'm trying to install Debian Stable (or unstable) on a new IBM RS/6000 B50. But I'm unable to boot any kernel (or the installation system). As I know, the Debian boot-floppies doesn't support this hardware type directly, so I have create my own floppies: 1. downloaded the rescue image, and dd'ed to a floppy (vfat format) [1] 2. downloaded the root image, and dd'ed to a floppy (ext2?) [1] 3. replace the kernel image in the rescue floppy with a kernel image, which should boot on a rs/6000 [2] (google was my friend here). mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt; cp linux.bin /mnt; umount /mnt I'm able to boot the kernel with the following kernel arguments from the Openfirmware prompt: > boot floppy:,\linux.bin root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 video=ofonly the kernel boots fine, and detect all internet disks, the matrix card, and a floppy drive (fd0). After two or tree seconds the kernel stops, and display the message, that I should insert the next floppy disk (root floppy). And here, the problems starts: I replace the disk and hit enter. But the kernel *doesn't* try to access the floppy drive (or the cdrom-drive), it simply dies with the following (well known message :-( ): Cannot open root device "fd0" or 02:00 Rebooting in 180 seconds The RS/6000 status display is now: (very bad) :-( I'm pretty sure, the kernel supports floppy drives, because a fd0 device is detected during startup. I have also playied with various other kernel arguments: prompt_ramdisk=1, root=/dev/mem, root=/dev/mem0, ramdisk_size=8192, chrpboot no different, except for the kernel dies immediately if I use /dev/mem* as root device. I haven't found a kernel image, which supports network boot, on the net, so I haven't tested this method yet. I have no further ideas now. Any ideas? Thanks for your help, Thorsten p.s. btw kernel images from d-i are not tested [1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/images-1.44/ [2] http://www.kutilek.de/technik/debian-rs6k -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: IBM RS/6000 B50 problems
* Leigh Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-08 11:30]: | Pah. Not at all, just somebody's misguided coding. The patch at the | end would make things a bit less confusing for those without a text | LCD display. ok. :-) | I think you need to make a bootable CD using yaboot. I've heard that | CHRPs don't support loading ramdisks from floppy, although I've no | idea why. hmm. all installation howto's I have found create two floppy disks from a cdrom. So I think cdrom boot isn't working at all? But I can play with the cdrom a little bit. Bye Thorsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: IBM RS/6000 B50 problems
* Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-08 20:50]: | On Mon, Dec 08, Thorsten Sauter wrote: | | > But I can play with the cdrom a little bit. | | just put the zImage.*chrk-rs6k on an ordinary iso and do a | | boot cdrom:filename mykerneloptions | | no need for yaboot. but how can I load the required initrd image? (it's a aix preinstalled machine) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian-installer powerpc status and beta2.
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-14 16:19]: | Subarches that may work, but where nobody tested are : | | - chrp and chrp/rs6k. The problem here is, to boot the system with the default d-i kernel, which doesn't work for me. But I can retry it again tomorrow on a B50 test machine. Bye Thorsten signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50
Hi, * nikp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-20 14:06]: | I've installed debian 3.0 ppc on my IBM b50 machine , and everything | is working fine. could you please told me, which kernel you have been used for installation? (URL) Thanks Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50
* Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-22 11:49]: | On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:43:24AM +0100, Nik(uff) wrote: | > Hi Sven Luther ,thank you very much for your reply. | > | > > I believe that you are not running the debian powerpc kernel on that | > > box. I would be very interested in getting access to both your kernel | > > source tree, (or info on where you got it from and what patch you did | > > apply, if any) as well as the config file used, so as to make the debian | > > -powerpc kernels build on those. | > | > i've used for the the installation a kernel downloaded through google | > (release 2.4.2) and later i've downloaded the kernel file directly from | > kernel.org and compiled it on the machine, with the standard procedure not | > the Debian one , cause this one was not working good. | > my configuration file is this one. | | Ok, thanks. I will see if we can look over it, and adapt the debian | .config for it. | | Thorsten, could you have a look at it, since you have access to such | hardware ? hmm. yes. I try to compile such a kernel and boot it. Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Problem raid IBM RS6000 B50
Hi, * nikp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-23 09:52]: | Just to complete the draw, right now my situation is this one. | On my machine with the kernel 2.4.24 compiled with the config that i | given to you. | I've got on disk0 a primary partition sda2 formatted ext3 with the | entire os later i,ve created other primary partitions sda4 and sdb4 | and after a raid1 partition with these 2 (md0) formatted the raid | partition ext3 and copied all the files from sda2. is it possible to send me your vmlinuz kernel image? I have currently no way to compile it myself with your .config file. So I could simply try to boot your kernel. Thanks a lot Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
