Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:03:51PM +0200, Pip Oomen wrote: > An initial test I performed today, with the nighlty from April 4th, > seems to find the harddisk OK. I'll look into further details/problems > tomorrow and report back with an installation report. Ok, cool. Friendly, Sven Luther --

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-04-05 Thread Pip Oomen
An initial test I performed today, with the nighlty from April 4th, seems to find the harddisk OK. I'll look into further details/problems tomorrow and report back with an installation report. Regards, Pepijn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 12:34:57PM +0200, Pip Oomen wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >>Researching the 'missing driver' a bit further, it actually looks like > >>the config option that is needed is: > >> > >>CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y > >> > >>This driver supports the Promise Ultra 100 TX2 [PDC

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-29 Thread Pip Oomen
Sven Luther wrote: Researching the 'missing driver' a bit further, it actually looks like the config option that is needed is: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y This driver supports the Promise Ultra 100 TX2 [PDC20268], which seems to be the IDE device to which the harddisks are attached. So, what

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 07:01:26AM -0600, elijah wright wrote: > > > BTW, the SATA drive you mentioned previously are only used with the G5 > > powermac, right ? None of the earlier models have Serial ATA support ? > > right. SATA was new on the g5 towers. the g5 xServe machines are also > now

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-27 Thread elijah wright
> BTW, the SATA drive you mentioned previously are only used with the G5 > powermac, right ? None of the earlier models have Serial ATA support ? right. SATA was new on the g5 towers. the g5 xServe machines are also now SATA - not that anyone i know personally has gotten their hands on one, of

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 01:24:12PM +0100, Pip Oomen wrote: > Researching the 'missing driver' a bit further, it actually looks like > the config option that is needed is: > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y > > This driver supports the Promise Ultra 100 TX2 [PDC20268], which seems > to be the IDE

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-27 Thread Pip Oomen
Researching the 'missing driver' a bit further, it actually looks like the config option that is needed is: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y This driver supports the Promise Ultra 100 TX2 [PDC20268], which seems to be the IDE device to which the harddisks are attached. So, what is the status on t

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 10:50:56AM +0100, Pip Oomen wrote: > How about CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE ? Is that driver included in the > kernel for the installer ? This one is modular : CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE=m I can modify that for my next upload, since you would need them to be builtin for now

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-27 Thread Pip Oomen
How about CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE ? Is that driver included in the kernel for the installer ? [ ref: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200309/msg00045.html ] Regards, Pepijn. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:47:22PM +0100, Pip Oomen wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >Do you have RAID on that machine's disk ? This may be one of the > >problems. > > RAID is supported on the machine, but not used. The nightly of march > 25th has the same problem as the nightly from the 22th, i.

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-26 Thread Pip Oomen
Sven Luther wrote: Do you have RAID on that machine's disk ? This may be one of the problems. RAID is supported on the machine, but not used. The nightly of march 25th has the same problem as the nightly from the 22th, i.e. it boots correctly, but the debian-installer never presents its 'initial

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-25 Thread Pip Oomen
After a lot of hassle, I was able to use Apple's System Profiler to dump some info on the machine to a text file and copy that file to my desktop: Hardware Overview: Machine speed: 1.333 Ghz Bus speed: 167 MHz Number of processors: 2 L2 cache size: 256K (times 2) L3 cache size: 2MB (times 2

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:25:36AM +0100, Pip Oomen wrote: > With nightly 20040322 it does boot the installer kernel (and I do get > vc's on 2/3, etc) but the debian-installer process just sits there > with a black screen and a block cursor in the lower left-hand corner. > Is this something that th

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:25:36AM +0100, Pip Oomen wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >>I have a Apple XServe on which I would love to install Debian, but with > >>the last attempt (nightly build from march 9th) it failed the > >>recognition of the IDE drives (missing IDE modules), and thus I coul

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-25 Thread Pip Oomen
Sven Luther wrote: I have a Apple XServe on which I would love to install Debian, but with the last attempt (nightly build from march 9th) it failed the recognition of the IDE drives (missing IDE modules), and thus I could not get to the partitioning of the system. Mmm, do you have any kind of

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-23 Thread Pip Oomen
(continuing on list) Ok. I am downloading the nightly build (march 22nd) of the netinst image now and will report back afterwards. Kind regards, Pepijn Oomen. Sven Luther wrote: The best would be for you to do an installation report, which you can find at : http://www.debian.org/devel/deb

Re: Debian installer for Apple XServe

2004-03-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:32:38AM +0100, Pip Oomen wrote: > On the debian-boot mailing list I noticed you are working on the > ppc/newworld installer and I was wondering what the current status is > for the nightly builds. Should it install now? Any point in burning a > netinst image? Well, no