Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread Deinsti Suski
ready mentioned, Yaboot does work (if installed via the Debian installer) so what exactly is the issue is hard to tell right now. If we find anything useful I'll report back Dein On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 at 12:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 11/13/20

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-13 Thread Deinsti Suski
sti and Daniel On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 14:59, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 02:48:03PM +, Deinsti Suski wrote: > > Hello Len > > > > 1; Yes, we are using the MBR Partition table > > 2; the PreP partition is 8MB and has the Boot flag set to on &

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-04 Thread Deinsti Suski
1/1/20 10:24 PM, Deinsti Suski wrote: > > The hardware is an IBM pSeries 550 Server > > Processors: 4x IBM POWER6 cards with 2-Cores at 4GHz each (Total: 8 > Cores) > > RAM: 92GB > > HDD: Single 300GB drive (No RAID) > > > > > > Do you have any suggestion

Re: Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-04 Thread Deinsti Suski
issing-firmware /dev/.udev missing firmware' and the installation media fails to mount If you need any more information don't hesitate to ask -- Dein On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 18:50, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 09:24:08PM +, Deinsti Suski wrote: > > Rec

Debian Sid PPC64 / IBM pSeries 550 --- Bootloaders don't work after succesful install

2020-11-01 Thread Deinsti Suski
Recently me and a friend of mine have been trying to install Debian Sid on an IBM pSeries 550 server to no avail; we have attempted a variety of methods such as installing GRUB with everything on an / ext4 partition, GRUB with a separate ext2 /boot and ext4 /, Yaboot with everything on an ext4 / an