Re: disk labels and partitions for IBM Power to boot

2011-03-02 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sorry but I'm running some Power6 hardware and I have a different experience. Here is the results of the a few commands : root@alopex-lagopus:~# sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 70006 cylinders, 128 heads, 32 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 2

Re: Yaboot

2011-02-14 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 14/02/2011 15:04, Joseph Jezak a écrit : > On 12/02/10 11:36, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Hi Debian folks! > > I've finally gotten around to patching the existing ofpath as requested > here. If I could get some testing, that would be greatly apprec

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-21 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 21/12/2010 11:36, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:20:32AM +0100, Xavier Grave wrote: >> I will try to do this before the end of the week. I'd like to avoid a >> full reinstall. Does a boot from the CD be

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-21 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 21/12/2010 11:36, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:20:32AM +0100, Xavier Grave wrote: >> I will try to do this before the end of the week. I'd like to avoid a >> full reinstall. Does a boot from the CD be

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-21 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 18/12/2010 13:31, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > Hi Xavier, > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:44:22PM +0100, Xavier Grave wrote: >> I have tested the >> unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-netinst-1-yaboot-1.3.16.iso on the >> p

Re: advice about /etc/securetty

2010-12-17 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 16/12/2010 16:46, Xavier Grave a écrit : > Le 16/12/2010 15:58, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : >> Excerpts from Xavier Grave's message of Don Dez 16 14:37:36 +0100 2010: >>> After a fresh power6 install :) I tried to login

Re: advice about /etc/securetty

2010-12-16 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 16/12/2010 15:58, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > Excerpts from Xavier Grave's message of Don Dez 16 14:37:36 +0100 2010: >> After a fresh power6 install :) I tried to login as root at the console >> prompt but hvsi0 was missing in /etc/securetty >> >>

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-16 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have tested the unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-netinst-1-yaboot-1.3.16.iso on the power6 I have at hand. First of all : no more "two passes behaviour", ehea module OK. Reboot worked perfectly. Thanks to all of you that make it possible ! Her

advice about /etc/securetty

2010-12-16 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, After a fresh power6 install :) I tried to login as root at the console prompt but hvsi0 was missing in /etc/securetty Do you think this can be counted as a bug against login package ? I don't really know the policy around this. And if so, what b

Bug also present in debian-squeeze-di-beta2-powerpc-netinst.iso

2010-12-13 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Just to give the info, I have tested the debian-squeeze-di-beta2-powerpc-netinst.iso. The fix for bug#605774 didn't reach the last installer iso. xavier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mo

Re: Report of install for a power6 with debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso

2010-12-08 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08/12/2010 12:50, Anton Blanchard a écrit : > Hi, > >> i've also experienced the "two passes behaviour" occasionally, but >> up to now haven't been able to figure out a pattern. It's definately >> Linux-specific, since we don't see that behaviour w

Re: Report of install for a power6 with debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso

2010-12-07 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 07/12/2010 18:24, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > Hi Milan > > Do you have any idea about the error reported by Xavier? Should I wait > with the upload until you have a fix for this? I personally don't know > much about power6 and can't help with this

Re: Report of install for a power6 with debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso

2010-12-07 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Milan, I have also tested unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-bugfix-test-20101205-1.iso today. Same behaviour as unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-bugfix-test.iso Do you want me to give you the logs also of this install (did you get the first ones

Re: Report of install for a power6 with debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso

2010-12-03 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 03/12/2010 15:45, Milan Kupcevic a écrit : > On 12/03/2010 06:29 AM, Xavier Grave wrote: >> ReHi, >> >> First of all, thanks to all people working around yaboot and powerpc >> port (I can't help a lot ex

Report of install for a power6 with debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso

2010-12-03 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ReHi, First of all, thanks to all people working around yaboot and powerpc port (I can't help a lot except some test on power hardware :( ). That said, back to the matter : I have burn the debian-squeeze-di-beta1-powerpc-netinst.iso, booted it. No e

Fwd: debian-installer: Missing ehea.ko module for powerpc install

2010-12-03 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Here is the bug report I just filled against debian-installer regarding some missing Ethernet module for my power6 CPU (ehea.ko). Using usb key to go further I hit the yaboot 1.13 wall. So I will try unofficial-debian-squeeze-powerpc-bugfix-test.

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-17 Thread Xavier Grave
> I tried the Zsombor's iso of 12.10.2010 on a PowerBook G3, it installed. > I rebooted and came into yaboot 1.3.16. I selected "Linux" and it > stopped. > > > Please wait, loading kernel... > Elf64 kernel loaded... > Loading ramdisk... > ramdisk loaded at 0150, size> 10044 Kbytes It see

Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-14 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 14/10/2010 15:51, zsomb...@gmail.com a écrit : > Hello Xavier, > > 2010.10.14. 14:26 xavier grave : >> On a power6 system I get the following problems : >> - ehea.ko is missing (solved using an usb key) >> - m

Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-14 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13/10/2010 19:20, Zsombor a écrit : > Hi all, > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Gary wrote: >> I tried to do this with Zsombor's recent build but, unfortunately, the >> network driver wasn't recognized and a suitable kernel wasn't found >> for

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-11 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 10/10/2010 12:42, Zsombor a écrit : > Hi all, > > You can try a new DI image at http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/ > > * official 64-bit kernel replaced by a custom kernel > [linux-image-2.6.32zsexp01] > with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y <- an idea to

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-11 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 10/10/2010 12:42, Zsombor a écrit : > Hi all, > > You can try a new DI image at http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/ > > * official 64-bit kernel replaced by a custom kernel > [linux-image-2.6.32zsexp01] > with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y <- an idea to

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-10 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, > Hi all, > > You can try a new DI image at http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/ > > * official 64-bit kernel replaced by a custom kernel > [linux-image-2.6.32zsexp01] > with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y + added ehea nic module (for 64bit di-kernel only) > If you have time to test, I'm looking for

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Xavier Grave
original message- De: "Zsombor" zsomb...@gmail.com A: "Gary Driggs" gdri...@gmail.com Copie à: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:17:25 +0200 - > > Until that, you can try a new iso soon.

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08/10/2010 14:38, Zsombor a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, xavier grave > wrote: >> the ethernet board isn't recognised. >> My configuration : is a power6 based machine >> Machine type-model: 8203-E4A &g

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 07/10/2010 20:40, Zsombor a écrit : > Thank you everyone for the hosting offers. > > I'm planning to create other experimental cd-sets regarding to this > port (of course with Yaboot 1.3.16), and live-usb images. > Please let me know what packages

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-06 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 06/10/2010 14:56, zsomb...@gmail.com a écrit : > Hi, > > I've repackaged yaboot 1.3.16 with modified mkofboot symlink and created > a minimal di cdrom iso (~230MB). > This installer works without any issue. It is a very minimal installer > with som

Re: Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-18 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, > However, the auxiliary math routins in libgcc.a (.so) will be the same, and > not optimized for the given CPU type. > Gcc compiler should be build with "multilib" support enabled, in this case > the build provides specialized libgcc.a and startup .o modules for each > possible "-mcpu", in

Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-17 Thread Xavier Grave
may be you can try apt-build ? $ cat /etc/apt/apt-build.conf build-dir = /var/cache/apt-build/build repository-dir = /var/cache/apt-build/repository Olevel = -O3 march = -march=pentium2 mcpu = -mcpu=pentium2 options = As you can see, there you can rebuild packages in an automatic way with whatev

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Xavier Grave
original message- De: "Aurélien GÉRÔME" a...@debian.org A: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:05:55 +0200 - > > I miss some physical 64-bit hardware to test it, mainly access to > pSeries

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I'm using the ppc port (VME boards and Power5 Power5+ and Power6 systems) and I'd like to help. I'm not a DD but I have upload rights because of my DM status (I maintain and co maintain a few packages related to Ada). I'm mainly an Ada and C developer. Hope it will help, xavier

Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?

2010-02-18 Thread Xavier Grave
> Hello Fabiano, > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Fabiano Manoel de Andrade > fabian...@gmail.com wrote: >>        The installation was sucesfull without any modification. The ps3 net >> card was recognized and configured. The only thing is the message of the >> installer that no suitable k

Re: Power6 and Testing

2009-12-21 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xavier grave a écrit : > More informations : > using ehea.ko from my power5 install, network runs fine. Part of the > install was done under chroot and now I hit a yaboot wall : reboot after > reboot hanging each time at : > Cal

Re: Power6 and Testing

2009-12-21 Thread xavier grave
rescue mode and try : 1/ grub2 2/ yaboot 1.3.14 xavier grave a écrit : > Hi, > > Frank Fegert a écrit : >> Hello, > >> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:16:04PM +0100, xavier grave wrote: >>> Address >>> 1. PORT - 1 IBM Host Ethernet Ada U789C.001.DQD1C40-P1-C7

Re: Power6 and Testing

2009-12-20 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Frank Fegert a écrit : > Hello, > > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:16:04PM +0100, xavier grave wrote: >> Address >> 1. PORT - 1 IBM Host Ethernet Ada U789C.001.DQD1C40-P1-C7-T1 >> 00215eb28920 >> 2. PORT - 2

Re: Power6 and Testing

2009-12-19 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Frank, Thanks for your help. Frank Fegert a écrit : > Hello, > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:22:22PM +0100, xavier grave wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> I have just received a 520 server with a power6 in. I'am t

Power6 and Testing

2009-12-18 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, I have just received a 520 server with a power6 in. I'am trying to install from a daily netinst iso. I can boot using install64 (need two call to install64) but it don't detect any network board, which is a little problematic :) It seem

Re: Debian on Xilinx FPGA's

2009-06-09 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spenser Gilliland a écrit : > Hi, > > My name is Spenser Gilliland. I am an Electrical and Computer Engineer at > Baylor. I spent quite a bit of time over the past few months putting Debian > on a cluster of FPGAs. It was quite an adventure with se

Re: trouble with lenny

2008-12-28 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paride Desimone a écrit : > Il giorno sab, 27/12/2008 alle 00.10 +0100, Paride Desimone ha scritto: >> Hi, >> I have install on iMag G3 NewWorld, Lenny. >> A very minimal install. No Xorg, just the base system. >> Seems everithing ok, but when I connec

Re: network problem on openpower710

2007-09-05 Thread xavier grave
Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007 à 12:45 +0200, Bastian Blank a écrit : > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:35:43PM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > > - ifconfig eth0 gives : > > eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found > > You did not show that there are no int

Re: network problem on openpower710

2007-09-05 Thread xavier grave
Le mardi 04 septembre 2007 à 06:32 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:34:47PM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had a try with SF235_214 firmware version without much success. > > with 2.6.22-2-powerpc64 kernel. > > > >

Re: network problem on openpower710

2007-09-03 Thread xavier grave
Hi, I had a try with SF235_214 firmware version without much success. with 2.6.22-2-powerpc64 kernel. I'll try to downgrade one more time to SF230_158 just to check... xavier Le jeudi 30 août 2007 à 16:33 +0200, xavier grave a écrit : > Le jeudi 30 août 2007 à 13:22 +0200, Sven Luther

[Sven Ban] Is Sven still under ban on the debian-powerpc list ?

2007-08-30 Thread xavier grave
Hi, I would like to know if Sven Luther is still banned from debian-powerpc list ? If so, can you remove this ban ? I think (from a technical point of view) Sven should be able to post on this list because at least he gives very valuable advices and have a very good knowledge of powerpc hardware

Re: network problem on openpower710

2007-08-30 Thread xavier grave
at 10:20:38AM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a openpower710 running Debian. It had hardware problem. > > This has been fixed. Now I have a kernel that can boot, but the network > > interface won't work : > > Configuring network interfa

network problem on openpower710

2007-08-30 Thread xavier grave
Hi, I have a openpower710 running Debian. It had hardware problem. This has been fixed. Now I have a kernel that can boot, but the network interface won't work : Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETMASK: N

Re: Bug#438504: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-23 Thread xavier grave
Le jeudi 23 août 2007 à 09:55 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:41:22AM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > >The linux 2.6.21 build without problem on my unstable distribution. > >The build produced a lot of .deb file with version 2.6.21-2

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-23 Thread xavier grave
Le mercredi 22 août 2007 à 11:16 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : -- snip -- > > > Could you do : > > > > > > apt-get build-dep linux-2.6 > > > apt-get source linux-2.6 > > > cd linux-2.6-2.6.22 > > > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc -B > > > > It worked here without PB. Here are some in

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-22 Thread xavier grave
Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 13:28 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:25:32PM +0200, xavier grave wrote: > > Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > Hi, ... > > > > > > I ask for volunteers to help investigate the

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread xavier grave
> > We have tested it on a powerbook and a mpc8349e-mitx board, but it seems > they don't believe in me or something, so what is really needed is an > independent test and confirmation. > > Could you do : > > apt-get build-dep linux-2.6 > apt-get source linux-2.6 > cd linux-2.6-2.6.22 >

Re: please help investigate potential gcc / kernel ICE on powerpc32 machines in lenny/sid.

2007-08-21 Thread xavier grave
Le mardi 21 août 2007 à 11:34 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > Hi, ... > > I ask for volunteers to help investigate the bug Hi, I have a debian unstable 32 bits (dual 1GHz G4) here at work, but no time for tests, I can create you an account on it if you want. What else do you need ? Do you want m

Re: open firmware and my etch boot

2007-06-18 Thread xavier grave
Le lundi 18 juin 2007 à 09:33 -0400, ebenoit a écrit : > does yabootconfig have to reside on sda1? I don't think so... It has to be somewhere it can be executed... But in order to do a good job it need to have an apple bootstrap partition. Here is my partition table on my dual G4 mac : /dev/hda

Re: open firmware and my etch boot

2007-06-15 Thread xavier grave
-0400, eric a écrit : > in yaboot.conf or open firmware? > > xavier grave wrote: > > May be you should replace the device line by : > > device=hd: > > > > xavier > > > > Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 07:50 -0400, eric a

Re: open firmware and my etch boot

2007-06-15 Thread xavier grave
* > > ofpath /dev/sda4 > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATTO,[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/@0:4 > > > I was in partition 4 getting all the above information. > > xavier grave wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > > > I just remembered something about the

Re: open firmware and my etch boot

2007-06-14 Thread xavier grave
ound, > can you help? Thanks. > > > xavier grave wrote: > > Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 09:52 -0400, Eric Benoit a écrit : > > > >> I have a Apple G4 server model M5183. I've install Etch without a > >> problem, however when I get to second stage boo

Re: open firmware and my etch boot

2007-06-12 Thread xavier grave
Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 09:52 -0400, Eric Benoit a écrit : > I have a Apple G4 server model M5183. I've install Etch without a > problem, however when I get to second stage boot... it freezes or hangs > then the monitor turns black. > > my boot-device for open firmware(3)is: > boot-device >

Re: Powerpc netinst CD when selected install64 installs only powerpc not powerpc64 kernel image!

2007-05-24 Thread xavier grave
Hi, Le jeudi 24 mai 2007 à 12:09 +0200, Michal Semler a écrit : > Today I found serious error in powerpc netinst image, where I selected > install64 to install 64bit kernel. Installation continues and finishes well, > but system is unable to be booted from harddrive. I had this problem with an

Re: mol on an eMac

2007-05-18 Thread xavier grave
Hi, apt-file search X11/Xlib.h gives me : hugs: usr/lib/hugs/packages/X11/Graphics/X11/Xlib.hs ivtools-dev: usr/include/IV-X11/Xlib.h libghc6-x11-dev: usr/lib/X11-1.2/ghc-6.6/Graphics/X11/Xlib.hi libx11-dev: usr/include/X11/Xlib.h So I think you should do an : apt-get install libx11-dev Hope it

openpower 710 clock management with hwclock

2007-03-28 Thread xavier grave
Hi, I'm running unstable debian for powerpc arch on a openpower710. hwclock don't have access to /dev/rtc so I don't have access to hardware clock... Is this a standard behaviour ? I tried also with all rtc directory modules loaded without any effect... /dev/rtc was also created by hand (MAKEDEV r

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-06 Thread Xavier Grave
386243 is the number of the bug... for the serial output the line : T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L hvsi0 9600 vt100 now this is OK, thanks a lot ! I will try it on my openpower710 ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-06 Thread Xavier Grave
> > > > I still have a problem : no console out of ttyS0. > > your console is either /dev/hvc0 or /dev/hvsi0 depending on wheter you ran a > virtualized environment or not. I have tryed : hvc0:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 9600 hvc0 I get this following message : hvc_console tty open failed no vt

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-06 Thread Xavier Grave
Le mercredi 06 septembre 2006 à 13:17 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:58:10AM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > > > > > Did you file the bug report ? I think filling it correctly to the debian > > > BTS > > > is the more important thing t

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-06 Thread Xavier Grave
> Did you file the bug report ? I think filling it correctly to the debian BTS > is the more important thing to do here. OK the new install is done, report bug filed with logs in it. I hope it will help. I'm waiting for the confirmation email. I still have a problem : no console out of ttyS0. Whe

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-05 Thread Xavier Grave
I have restarted an install. I will save the log before reboot, install the linux-powerpc64 image and don't delete the comptent of /boot... Hope it will be enought... Le mardi 05 septembre 2006 à 16:05 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:29:44PM +0200, Xavier Gra

Re: report install on a p510

2006-09-05 Thread Xavier Grave
Le mardi 05 septembre 2006 à 14:16 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:12:18PM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I hope these informations will be of some use... > > I've downloaded the CD netinstall for powerpc. Everything worke

report install on a p510

2006-09-05 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I hope these informations will be of some use... I've downloaded the CD netinstall for powerpc. Everything worked well except for the reboot. The kernel installed seems to be a 32 bits one. Reboot with the install CD + chroot to /target + apt-get install linux-image-2.6-powerpc64 + ybin solved

Re: problem with debootstrap

2005-10-21 Thread Xavier Grave
> TRY IT!! https://www.scientificlinux.org/ They have a powerpc compatible version ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with debootstrap

2005-10-19 Thread Xavier Grave
Le mercredi 19 octobre 2005 à 18:24 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 06:20:17PM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > Why do you want to do that, etch has now 64bit ppc64 kernel support and a > biarch toolchain, it should be enough for everyone's need, and no need to go

problem with debootstrap

2005-10-19 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi all, Since I have the problem under debian unstable ppc 32 bits (I hope I'm not too off topic :-) I think I should ask my question here : debootstrap --arch ppc64 sid ppc64.chroot http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4 failed with : I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Packages I: Validatin

Re: open power 710 install

2005-10-03 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I have tryed on our open power 710 http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/current/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso today and two statements : During the install the yaboot step fail, I had to chroot to /target in order to do a yabootconfig from the chrooted environment

Re: open power 710 install

2005-09-30 Thread Xavier Grave
disk... xavier Le vendredi 30 septembre 2005 à 17:19 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:45:20PM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have succeeded in booting an iso for debian > > http://ftp.uni-augsburg.de/pub/tuxppc/test/Debian-Inst

open power 710 install

2005-09-30 Thread Xavier Grave
ot; any scsi disk in open firmware at boot time, the sms console doesn't propose scsi disk in boot order also... Does anybody have an idea of what I might do... Thanks in advance, xavier grave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re : Re : G5 Xserver or Sun Blade 1500

2004-02-02 Thread xavier grave
Xavier. Could you send me the .config of the kernel you use ? Do you have to enable anything special for the G5 (i suppose that there is a G5 processor option, like there is a power3 and power4 one, but you cannot use the 60x/75x/74xx option). Ok, for the config file, for those interested I also

Re : G5 Xserver or Sun Blade 1500

2004-01-30 Thread xavier grave
Hi, I have a BiG5 (powermac, not the Xserver version) and it runs under debian GNU/Linux... For the installation I used knoppix + debootstrap + benh kernel Hope it will help... xavier Le 29.01.2004 20:50:33, Paddy de Burca a écrit : Hi, I have a G5 and have not as yet been able to get it

Re : Debian on a BiG5

2003-12-01 Thread xavier grave
Le 28.11.2003 21:06:38, fleny68 a écrit : Le Vendredi 28 Novembre 2003 15:16, xavier grave a écrit : > Hi, > > I have already a BiG4 1Ghz running a debian. Now I have also a BiG5. > How can I create a CD to boot such a beast ? This one should do that. parted with hfs and deb

Debian on a BiG5

2003-11-28 Thread xavier grave
Hi, I have already a BiG4 1Ghz running a debian. Now I have also a BiG5. How can I create a CD to boot such a beast ? Some idea I had : - debootstrap a ppc64 on a directory on my BiG4 and use bootcdwrite - debootstrap a ppc32 on a directory on my BiG4 and use bootcdwrite - generate an i

Re: galeon problem

2003-01-20 Thread Xavier Grave
On Monday 20 January 2003 15:42, Jan Govaere wrote: > Yes I have. > > It doesn't seems to be a problem with galeon but a bug in mozilla (mozilla > gave me a segmentation error). I upgrade my woody unstable and it fix the > pb. I'm running the unstable version but I always have the same problem. If

galeon problem

2003-01-20 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I have a little problem with galeon. Since I have a one shot correction with dpkg-reconfigure I think I can ask the question on this list. The first time I launch galeon I don't have any problem, the second time it don't find the url page and start to launch new galeon window, Ctrl^C or qui

Re: Quicksilver Install problem

2002-12-04 Thread Xavier Grave
On Monday 2 December 2002 21:11, KingOfShadow wrote: > On my new G4 Quicksilver 867x2 I cannot install woddy because it cannot > find a my hard disk. Probably i think ithe problem si in the bus cose > the it has only ATA/66 and ATA/100 ( the disk is a ATA/100). > What can I do. I had the same probl

Re: XFree86 4.2.99.2 / radeon 9000

2002-11-18 Thread Xavier Grave
> > yes it works, and yes I use Option "UseFBDev" "true" > > > > Thank's > > > > Eric > > Eric, tu peut filer ta config a Xavier Grave (en CC) ? Il a des > problemes avec apparement la meme carte. > > Ben. Merci Ben, merci

Re: Tweaking Kernel Makefile

2000-10-13 Thread Xavier Grave
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Eric Reischer wrote: > If I "tweak" the top-level makefile for a 2.3 kernel to force the ARCH > variable to be PPC instead of running uname -m, would that produce a > successful compile for a PowerPC kernel, providing I get the makefiles > correct? It seems too easy, and I

?Where to as kernel specific question ?

2000-10-11 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I'm trying to boot the latest kernel from fsmlab.com. I have PCI problem when I try to boot. Where can I discuss such kernel issue ? Here is my error message ? PCI: Probing PCI hardware Setting PCI interrupts for a "MVME 2300" Relocating PCI address 3c00 -> 100 Relocating P

Kernel Hanging : no more, SCSI problem

2000-09-26 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi ! The last fsmlab kernel for my board (PreP 603 PPC) stop hanging but the boot have a problem with my SCSI Board : sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 17, function 0 sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up) sym53c8xx: 53c895 detected sym53c895-0: r

Kernel Hanging...

2000-09-22 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi all, After compiling and booting a 2.2.17 kernel from ftp.kernel.org on my prep machine, I'm trying to do the same with the 2.4.0-test8. After succeded in compiling, the boot hang with this message : Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 root=/dev/sda5 Uncompressing Linux...done.

2.2.17, 2.4.0-test8 and SCSI SYM53C8XX

2000-09-13 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi all, I've succeded in booting my MVME 2303 Board with a 2.2.17 kernel from ftp.kernel.org. Since it was a diskless board, I bought a PMC card to have SCSI (a pci to scsi chip 53C895). When I try to do the same with the 2.4.0-test8 kernel I can't select the SYM53C8XX SCSI support. What do I nee

Re: where is make-kpkg?

2000-09-05 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi ! On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Cyril wrote: > Hi all, > I'm planning on rebuilding my kernel (I had to reinstall the whole > system due to a really bad crash), so I did a netinstall of potato. > Thing is, I don't seem to have make-kpkg. > Does anyone know in which deb it is? > Thanks > Cyril After a "

Re: bootx vs yaboot vs ?

2000-07-11 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, You should think about using yaboot, it works really fine on my G3 with MacOS 9 (iMac DVD). Did you follow yaboot prescriptions : first a 800k partition (Apple_Bootstrap) linux stuff MacOS partition(s) I can send you a tex or ps file describing my install (the start o

iMac DvD : Xfree Mach64 or fb ?

2000-07-07 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I wonder what's the best to do for my X11 configuration : use the fb or the Xfree 4.0 tree ? As I understand the fb for the moment is a more stable choice but the Xfree solution is a best choice on the long term... Can somebody advice me ? Thanks in advance, xavier [EMAIL PROTECTED] 33 (0) 1

summary of my iMac install

2000-07-07 Thread Xavier Grave
he space bar during boot time. \section{Special thanks} Thanks to Ethan Benson and Martijn van de Streek for the help they give me to boot my \imac~DVD under \debian~\linux. Thanks also to the people who are involved in \powerpc~\debian~maintaining, I like to work under \debian~:-) \section*{Author} Xavier Grave\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \end{document}

Re: debian on the 7200

2000-07-06 Thread Xavier Grave
I'm not an expert on powerpc machines but can you boot on CD ? from the OF perhaps ? (there is something on this in the linux ppc archives) If so the image from the official site is fine for start. The information from the thread on installing iMac DVD is helpfull also. With this I was able to bo

Sorry...

2000-07-05 Thread Xavier Grave
If I hold the space bar during boot time it solves my previous problem... Sorry for generating noise... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 33 (0) 1 69 15 79 59 ,/{} ,/ {| ,,,/{|, __--~~{| ~-, __--~~ { `\ ,__

help needed with menu_ofboot.b

2000-07-05 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi all, Now that my iMac boot under linux I reconfigured my yaboot.conf and ofboot.b to use menu_ofboot.b When the iMac Boot I always get yaboot. What key I have to press to have MacOs ? I definitly don't understand the 5 + c@ 08 = syntax I have recognize a reverse polish syntax but that all...

Thanks

2000-07-04 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi all, I would like to thanks Ethan Benson and Martijn van de Streek for the help they give me to boot my iMac DVD under Debian Linux. All worked perfectly well. Thanks also to the people who are involved in powerpc debian maintaining, the install process is cool... I'm starting to write down t

Re: Last part of an iMac DvD install : ybin

2000-07-04 Thread Xavier Grave
Thanks one more time ! More on that tomorrow ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 33 (0) 1 69 15 79 59 ,/{} ,/ {| ,,,/{|, __--~~{| ~-, __--~~ { `\ ,__ \ `,\{),\, _

Re: Last part of an iMac DvD install : ybin

2000-07-04 Thread Xavier Grave
Thanks, On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:35:41AM +0200, Xavier Grave wrote: > > When I get a shell in debian installation and do : > > #ybin -b /dev/hda9 --timeout 100 --label linux --root /dev/hda11 > > > you need to run mko

Last part of an iMac DvD install : ybin

2000-07-03 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi all, I've just get an iMac DvD. I've burned the CD from the debian site (ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/potato_test-cycle-2/powerpc/potato-1.raw) and booted it on my iMac. After a fw step, I have all installed except the yaboot part. When I get a shell in debian installation and do : #ybin -b

Please, need a config file for a rev C iMac

2000-06-04 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I'm trying to compile a 2.2.14 kernel for a rev C iMac. Does somebody already have a .config file to send me ? The only kernel I've compiled don't even try to boot... Thanks in advance, xavier PS: can you send this file in copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 33 (0) 1 69 15 79 59

modify a kernel

2000-05-22 Thread Xavier Grave
Hi, I have already talk about this problem but I didn't succed to solve it so I try a new message. I want to boot a diskless PreP board with a 2.3.99-pre6 kernel (Motorolla MVME 2301). The board boot fine with kernel 2.2.13. The only thing it need it's to handle correctly the boot arguments. The