On 11/13/20 6:38 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> You don't need to build debian-installer manually and you don't need
> to include the bootloader installers manually.
Small addendum: You will most likely have to build debian-installer manually
since the kernel ABI used in debian-installer's
On 11/13/20 5:55 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> It would nice to have instructions on how to build an iso image,
> probably step by step,
> since all my attempts to build something bootable on sparc64 and/or
> ppc64 actually failed.
It doesn't really involve much. You can mostly follow Helge's inst
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:39 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
> On 11/13/20 1:31 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:21 PM Deinsti Suski
> > wrote:
> >> We would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions
> >> and I hope that our discoveries help in anyway
> >>
We were honestly surprised ourselves, but no matter what we did - the
furthest we got was 'Welcome to GRUB!' and never any further - I'll have a
closer look into the firmware aspect of it - maybe there is an issue that
is preventing GRUB from working correctly tho like you already mentioned,
Yaboot
On 11/13/20 1:31 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:21 PM Deinsti Suski
> wrote:
>> We would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions
>> and I hope that our discoveries help in anyway
>> If you'd like to know more then don't hesitate to ask
>
> I wonder if it is
On 11/13/20 1:20 PM, Deinsti Suski wrote:
> So the important factors we came to conclude was that;
> the pSeries (550 but maybe other models too) cannot boot from GRUB,
> potentially a firmware issue but not confirmed as the system log reports no
> errors/warnings
> Yaboot has to be installed by th
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 3:21 PM Deinsti Suski
wrote:
> We would like to thank everyone for their help and suggestions and I hope
> that our discoveries help in anyway
> If you'd like to know more then don't hesitate to ask
I wonder if it is still possible to give an option to install yaboot
(bes
Quite a late email cause I forgot to give a status update on the server
After intensive testing, we managed to get SID to install on the pSeries
550 - What we had to do was obtain the last Debian SID ppc64 netinst which
still included Yaboot as a bootloader "*during install*" - this ended up
being
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
> 3; Debian is running on bare-metal, no hypervisor involved
> 3; Correct, the installer boots with no issues a
Hello Adrian
Sure thing, when I get back home I will make a new installation media with
Wheezy on it
any specific installation instructions? or should we just install it
normally
Dein
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 18:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 11/1/20 10:
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
3; Debian is running on bare-metal, no hypervisor involved
3; Correct, the installer boots with no issues at all and it's only after
the reboot when try to boot the installation from
On 11/1/20 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 suggestions on how to get this system to boot?
Can you first tr
On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 09:24:08PM +, Deinsti Suski wrote:
> 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
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
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