On Wed, June 1, 2005 8:45 am, Philippe Guyot said:
> AFAIK, M204 is a MCA-BUS machine.
> I don't think this architecture is supported now.
That's what I was trying to assertain :-) I don't know much about Bull
except that they tend to be rebadged RS6000's.
If it's MCA then I recommend it gets
On Tue, May 31, 2005 2:38 pm, Thierry DELHAISE said:
> We have a Bull Escala MT04 (2 processors) and we would like it to run
> Linux.
>
> - is it possible ?
> - What distribution could we used ?
> - Where can we found links to help us install this machine ?
>
> To be complete
>
> Before I subscribe
Christian Walther said:
> I'm trying to network-install Sarge on a RS/6000 7025-F50. Using the
> configuration menu of the machine, I configured the network interface. The
> machine is able to contact my tftpd-Server and to request the initird.
> While the file is transfered, it displays the amount
Sven Luther said:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:45:13AM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
>> >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:49:19AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
>> >>>BTW, i have another question. I am trying to fix debian-installer
>> >>>to create the pre
Mike Martin said:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:39:41 -0500, Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:23:50 +0100 (MET), Ulrich Teichert
>> > Could you try to format them before dd'ing on them, like fdformat
>> /dev/fd0h1440?
>> > I am not sure if that will change anything, thoug
Philippe Guyot said:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:03, Sven Luther wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:39:15PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote:
[...]
>> > The PReP specs says that the cards should be initialised to a
>> > minimum resolution of 640x480 iirc. The boot loade
Sven Luther said:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:11:06PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> >Delete the "console=tty0", so you end up with:
>> >
>> > Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/ram
>> >
>> >and try again!
>> [del]
>>
>> Right, then the installer knows what to do. I think thi
Mike Martin said:
>> You definitely need to use the MS-DOS partition scheme. However, your
>> boot partition looks a bit big. No larger than 4MB is what is normally
>> recommended. There have been problems reported with too large boot
>> partitions in the past, although I'm not sure if that will
Philipp Vollmer said:
[...]
> 4. What kind of disklabel should I create on my disk? I have an old 9 GB
> disk in my RS6000 which has a MSDOS Disklabel - is that correct? Maybe I
> need to change certain things on my partition layout. It looks like that:
> MSDOS-Disklabel on 9 GB SCSI Disk
> 1. 30 M
Ulrich Teichert said:
[...]
> Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/ram
Delete the "console=tty0", so you end up with:
Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/ram
and try again!
[...]
>>It should never ask the console question again unless you change the
>>config (plug
Ulrich Teichert said:
>>[snip]
>>> There may be some problems with 2.6 kernels and pci irqs on prep. I
>>> will
>>> investigate this shortly.
>>
>>There is definitely something strange happening. The image I used to
>>do the (nearly) complete install will no longer configure the network.
>>Very inc
Sven Luther said:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:38:27PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
>> On Monday 20 December 2004 15:57, Philippe Guyot wrote:
>> > I agree, seen by dumping the 1rst sector of chrp ELF image.
>> > BTW netboot prep image is not an ELF ??
>>
>>
>> In my research, I was looking at the
Johannes Martin said:
> Hi,
>
>> I don't know if you have broadband, but if so, I have respun the latest
>> sarge powerpc business card cd, so that it should boot correctly (and
>> automatically). I would be grateful if you could give it a whirl.
>> It's here:
>>
>> http://www.solinno.co.uk/leigh/
Sven Luther said:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:10:31PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Sven Luther said:
>> > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> [...]
>> >> You can't boot from the CD's because they haven't been b
Sven Luther said:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote:
[...]
>> You can't boot from the CD's because they haven't been built to
>> work on AIX firmware. To work on AIX firmware, they require
>> the -U option to be specified in the mk
Philippe Guyot said:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:27, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Philippe Guyot said:
>> > On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:01, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> >> Indeed. Could you just tell me if it booted from CD automatically?
>>
>> [...]
>>
Philippe Guyot said:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:01, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Indeed. Could you just tell me if it booted from CD automatically?
[...]
>> I guess I can raise a bug for these once I've confirmed that autoboot
>> from CD is working for you.
>
> G
Philippe Guyot said:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 17:30, Leigh Brown wrote:
[...]
>> Then, you can burn that image to a CD, and see if it works any better.
>
> Everything done, and...
> All's fine! I am now in the install process!
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Ma
Philippe Guyot said:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 17:00, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> My version of yaboot pulls it from /etc/yaboot.conf (which is present
>> on the CD).
>>
>
> Ok.
>
> Hem. What do you mean by "my version of yaboot" ? The one in /p
Philippe Guyot said:
> This is the whirl expected:
>
> Automatic boot: black screen and automatic reboot of the box.
>
> Manual boot:
>
> I had a look on the cdrom and found in \ppc a bootinfo.txt saying the
> script
> was \ppc\chrp\yaboot, just similar to what I have seen on the AIX CDrom.
> (boot
Philippe Guyot said:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 14:25, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> I don't know if you have broadband, but if so, I have respun
>> the latest sarge powerpc business card cd, so that it should
>> boot correctly (and automatically). I would be grateful if
&g
Philippe Guyot said:
> After searching the archives, I found from Sven Luther that
>
> 1) diskette is not supported now on chrp-rs6k boxes.
> 2) shoul be ok whith cdrom from sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
>
> So I made the cdrom and tried to boot via open firmware.
>
> I suppose I must launch yaboot the
Sven Luther said:
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Notice that it should go in the common kernel-source patches instead,
> and that hch okeyed it, and that Leighh gave a more advanced patch
> which supercedes this one. This was in july, but then it dropped from
>
Amadeu Junior said:
> Hi ...
>
> I'm brazilian and my English is horrible !!!
>
> let's go...
>
> I'm trying boot a IBM RS/6000 E30 powerpc 604e-233Mhz, 512Mb RAM,
> 5*9,1Gb (SCSI), etc...
>
> I've been reading from
> http://home.tiscali.be/philippe_andersson/rs6000.html
>and
> http://
Sven Luther said:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:57:40PM +0200, Nicolas Raspail wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've a problem installing Debian on my 7043-150 (powerpc 604e, chrp I
>
> Are you sure that this is a chrp, and not a prep machine ?
Just for the record the 7043-150 is definitely CHRP.
Sven Luther said:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:09:49AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Sven Luther said:
>> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> >> Sven Luther said:
>> >> > Could you please try netbooting
>> >
Hi Sven,
Sven Luther said:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Sven Luther said:
>> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
>> >> Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to "Now booting kernel
>>
Geert Uytterhoeven said:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:46:54PM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> > Sven Luther said:
>> > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
>> > >> Hello,
>> &g
Sven Luther said:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
>> Hello,
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
>> > Helge, did you have had more success than me on your RS/6000 ? If i
>> > succeed in installing Debian on this machine, i will have a
Sven Luther said:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:56:23AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Since every single RS6000 "offical" ethernet card that I've ever seen
>> uses pcnet32, I'd say its important to include it in the initrd.
>
> Ok, mmm, you mean the pcnet32
Sven Luther said:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:28:46AM +0900, Jerome Walter wrote:
>> Mmmh, i did try netboot. But kernel gets stuck to "Now booting kernel
>> too..."
>
> Well, but it makes debugging easier and quicker.
>
> Could you please try netbooting
>
>
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d
Martin Küchler said:
> Sven Luther wrote:
>>> >I believe that we may create a PReP-bootloader-installer or something
>>> >which would take care of moving the kernel to this partition. Not sure
>>> >though how this would work out. A bit like what nobootloader does.
>>> No, wait... we really want to
Patrick said:
> Apologies if this is too much OT. I am still trying to get my 43p-150 to
> boot. A while back I had removed the graphics card (GXT3000) and worked
> through the console since then. Last night I put it back in and now
> OpenFirmware will no longer ask me if I want to use the console
Sven Luther said:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:49:30AM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Sven Luther said:
>> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote:
>> Any chance of a power3 kernel that I could try the installer on?
>
> Well, there are package
Sven Luther said:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote:
>> Hi Sven,
>>
>> I'm sending you the boot info and the output of
>> /proc/pci.
>> The network card driver I need is:
>> Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
>> 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]
>
> Well, the sym53
Germán Poó Caamaño said:
> May someone give me some pointer to create a bootable CD for
> RS/6000 (CHRP64)?
>
> I'm not pretty sure that instructions shown at
> http://lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-users/2002/yaboot-users-200212/msg2.html
> can be applied for a RS/6000 (but I'll try it right now)
Geert Uytterhoeven said:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Geert Uytterhoeven said:
>> > My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot
>> loader
>> > and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the correct
>>
Geert Uytterhoeven said:
> My version of Open Firmware (from Firmworks) didn't like the yaboot loader
> and kept rebooting with the message `rebooting with the correct settings
> for this client program' (or something like that), until I disconnected
> the disk and it couldn't find the boot loader
Sven Luther said:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:01:15PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> BTW I have a 7043-260 which is one of
>> the older Power3 machines, I'll send the /proc/cpuinfo this evening when
>> I get home.
>
> Ok, thanks.
processor : 0
cpu
Sven Luther said:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:32:39AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote:
>> El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:24, Sven Luther escribió:
>> > Yes, but ths is a more general d-i problem, i understand, and is not
>> the
>> > question i asked here. Do you know if there are power3/power4 boxes
Sven Luther said:
> Mmm, if your machine is indeed prep based, please create a prep
> partition like 6.1 says, move the kernel you downloaded from my site to
> it, and launch it from OF.
FYI The 170 is a 64-bit Power3 CHRP machine. These support the ppc32 and
ppc64 kernels, but the 32-bit kernel
Thorsten Sauter said:
> 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. downloade
Albert Cahalan said:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Thankfully this is not a huge undertaking as the goal is not to create
>> an end to end 64 bit system. (Tho that could be done, but perhaps
>> that's a discussion for another day)
>
> It's not as if the Linux apps a
Woody said:
>>
>> It is CHRP. You need a "zImage.chrp-rs6k" image. Try one and report
>> back...
>>
> Thanks for your help...
>
> Tried the image I found at http://penguinppc.org/~olaf/2.4.6/
> Wrote it on disk using rawrite
> Booted IBM into open firmware (by pressing F8)
>
> hacked in: boot flo
Woody said:
[...]
> Type: 7043-150
> Power PC 604e
> Firmware: TCP03126 last modified 2003-06-05
> 512MB Ram
[...]
> Please - can anyone gimme a hint what to try? I tried CHRP images, PREP
> images (I guess this machine should be a PREP type according to many faqs)
> even PowerMac Images (which wor
Gabriel Paubert said:
> I find it quite stupid to distinguish them from PreP only because
> they have a different host bridge (Raven/Falcon/Hawk). This said
> I wrote my own bootloader for them which never made it to the
> official tree for several reasons but mostly my fault (I'm very
> bad at pus
Sven Luther said:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote:
>> Sven Luther said:
>> > Could you test the prep kernel at :
>> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about
>> :
>> >
>> > 1)
Sven Luther said:
> Could you test the prep kernel at :
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about :
>
> 1) The different method of booting from a prep system.
>
> 2) if there are auto-booting CDroms, or if you just have to enter the
> right value from the OF (in
Ricardo Alonso said:
> In the laboratory that i work here in my university, we have some ibm
> powerpc rs6000 machines (7006-410, 7006-42T, 7011-250, 7012-390 e 7024).
> all
> then have aix instaled and working, but we are having serius problems with
> this... so, i'd like to install a linux distri
Krisztian Mark Szentes said:
> I try to use the rescue image:
>
> 0 > boot floppy:\linux.bin load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/ram video=keep
> chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x40
> avail_ram = 4e5000
> gunzipping (0x1 <- 0x415cb8:0x4e3194)...done
> 1934704
> bytes
> start address =
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