Re: [PPC64] Partman doesn't recognize our partitions

2017-10-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/07/2017 11:30 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: I was able to boot the new initrd with the latest stable kernel 4.13.5. Unfortunately partman stops at 50%. Hw-detect isn't the problem. Maybe another script??? If you are still using your own kernel with the initrd from debian-installer, I'm no

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.

2017-10-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 7, 2017, at 3:16 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I haven't found the time yet to build it, sorry. No rush… Let me know when it’s available, that’s all. Enjoy! Rick

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.

2017-10-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/08/2017 12:14 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Can you give me a link to this updated installer image? I’m not seeing it in the usual places. I haven't found the time yet to build it, sorry. I will try to build it over the course of the weekend. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :'

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.

2017-10-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 6, 2017, at 2:40 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/06/2017 11:17 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Ah, the problem is most likely the debian/isinstallable script in >> grub-installer [1]. It's >> already checking for the existence of the /boot/grub HFS partition when th

Re: [PPC64] Partman doesn't recognize our partitions

2017-10-07 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Adrian, I also tried to boot the official powerpc64 initrd [1]. Unfortunately it doesn't boot. Error message: init Not tainted 4.13.5 I modified and recreated your initrd.img today. 1. I unzipped the Debian 8 initrd.gz (gunzip initrd.gz) 2. I unzipped your initrd.gz 3. I extracted the files

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Right… So what you need to do is this: When the partitioner is done creating the setup you describe and asks if you want to write that partition scheme to disk, you have a chance to do some manual partitioning before continuing. Tell it to delete the ext4 root partition. Then choose the resu

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Re: [PPC64] Partman doesn't recognize our partitions

2017-10-07 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Adrian, I have found an initrd.gz (32-bit) from 06/10/2017 [1]. I copied it to the onboard CF card and after that I booted it with the latest stable kernel 4.13.5 with the following commands: CFE> ramdisk -z -addr=0x2400 -fatfs cf0:initrd.gz CFE> setenv bootargs "root=/dev/ramdisk" CFE>

Re: [PPC64] Partman doesn't recognize our partitions

2017-10-07 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Hi Adrian, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately there aren't any additional interesting messages in the /var/log/syslog console. I will test an old initrd (32-bit). Maybe the issue is present in the old initrd too. Thanks for your help, Christian 07 October 2017 at 6:58PM, John Paul Adrian

Re: [PPC64] Partman doesn't recognize our partitions

2017-10-07 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Hi Adrian, I have tried it with the latest stable kernel 4.13.5 again but unfortunately without any success. Partman stops at 50%. I manually started the "disk-detect" command and it works without any error messages. I see also all partitions in /proc/diskstats. Cheers, Christian On 06 Octo

Re: [PPC64] Partman doesn't recognize our partitions

2017-10-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/07/2017 06:55 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > I have tried it with the latest stable kernel 4.13.5 again but unfortunately > without any success. Partman stops at 50%. I manually started the > "disk-detect" > command and it works without any error messages. > I see also all partitions in /pr

AW: Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-07 Thread richard.kuenz
Hellom rick I do automatic partitining on free spaceIt gives about 1MB newworld boot179GB / root debian ext41.5GB Swap But yaboot fails afterards with Input/output error or even refuses to install Von Samsung-Tablet gesendet Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Rick Thomas Dat

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 10/07/2017 10:17 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 10/07/2017 09:23 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: It's most likely `http://achive.debian.org` unless the Internet Archive has also set up a Debian mirror. Or did you just make a typo in your answer? You mean aRchive.debian.org. Ah, geez, y

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 7, 2017, at 2:03 AM, richard.kuenz wrote: > I am getting this error now with squeeze after yesterday installation > succeeded after some hiccups . . . > <20171007_110203_resized.jpg> When you installed, did you create an ext2 partition for /boot? If I’m understanding the error me

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/07/2017 09:23 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > It's most likely `http://achive.debian.org` unless the Internet Archive > has also set up a Debian mirror. Or did you just make a typo in your answer? You mean aRchive.debian.org. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Develope

Re: PowerPC sid installation

2017-10-07 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 10/06/2017 09:10 PM, Richard Kuenz wrote: Also, when installing Squeeze, it seems that the Package Archive is not accessible. Following this page here https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive it should be able during installation to add manually a Server for downloading the packages; But