Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-30 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 10/14/2010 08:26 AM, xavier grave wrote: > On a power6 system I get the following problems : >- ehea.ko is missing (solved using an usb key) >- manual partman can't be used >- reboot under a 32 bits kernel > Are you installing in a LPAR or in IBM PowerVM configured logical partiti

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

2010-10-17 Thread Zsombor
It is due to a symlink to a nonexistent file, but ybin is able to setup boot. On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > It seemed like an error, but it installed yaboot correctly! (see earlier > post). It gave me a warning that yaboot couldn't be installed but it > installed perfe

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

2010-10-17 Thread Jeroen Diederen
It seemed like an error, but it installed yaboot correctly! (see earlier post). It gave me a warning that yaboot couldn't be installed but it installed perfectly... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

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

2010-10-17 Thread Jeroen Diederen
I included yaboot 1.3.16 in my own version of simple-cdd and I tried again and had a look at the console: yaboot-installer: chroot: can't execute 'mkofboot': No such file or directory yaboot-installer: error: mkofboot failed with exit status 127 Op 17/10/2010 schreef "Xavier Grave" : > > >> I t

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

2010-10-17 Thread Jeroen Diederen
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 DEFAULT CATCH!, code=700

Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-14 Thread Zsombor
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:20 PM, xavier grave wrote: >>> - ehea.ko is missing (solved using an usb key) >>> - manual partman can't be used >>> - reboot under a 32 bits kernel > OK, should I understand I should go for two bug report ? :) Yes I think so, missing ehea module from 64-bit di-installe

Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-14 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 14, 2010, at 6:46 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Or even think about switching to GRUB 2. That's been discussed here a few times. Aside from testing is there anything the rest of us can do to help by way of time, money, documentation, hardware donations, etc? -Gary > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

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) >> - manual partman can't be used >> - reboot

Re: Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-14 Thread zsombibi
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) - manual partman can't be used - reboot under a 32 bits kernel For what I can see, yabbot 1.3.16 ran smoothly. How do we continue ? I fill a bug a

Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Joseph, thanks for answering ! Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 14:18 -0400, Joseph Jezak a écrit : > What devices don't work with the new ofpath? To be honest, I don't know. And it will be very hard for anyone to make a list of such devices. > What benefit is there to keeping the old one around

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

2010-10-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 10:32 -0700, Gary a écrit : > Thanks for the sleuthing, Ben. But I can't help but wonder how the > Lenny installer works to allow me to install unstable or testing on my > G5 with SATA...? Am I missing something important in the multiple > threads spawned by this issue

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: Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimenta

2010-10-14 Thread zsombibi
Hello all, 2010.10.13. 23:53 Gary : Does ofpath need updated in the yaboot-installer package? I tried your latest image and get the same error. You can read my debug logs here: http://ftp.extensis.com/ppc/logs/ Probably, as I think Yaboot cannot determine the device: yaboot-installer: ofpath:

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

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Zsombor wrote: > At http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/ , I removed the custom kernel and > the ehea module from the di-kernel. > So this release contains the official base image, the only change is > the yaboot replace (1.3.13a1 -> 1.3.16) Does ofpath need updated i

Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-13 Thread Joseph Jezak
On 10/13/10 13:19, Benjamin Cama wrote: > So, for now, no SATA for yaboot. Sorry it took so much time to > understand it myself. I'll try to do something with Joseph's code, or, > may I ask you directly : do you want to help on integrating your code to > current ofpath, Joseph ? > > What devices

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

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > So, for now, no SATA for yaboot. Sorry it took so much time to > understand it myself. I'll try to do something with Joseph's code, or, > may I ask you directly : do you want to help on integrating your code to > current ofpath, Joseph ? Th

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

2010-10-13 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 09:51 -0700, Gary a écrit : > I tried to do this with Zsombor's recent build but, unfortunately, the > network driver wasn't recognized Is it recognized with the original installer ? If it's the case, it means there's definitly something wrong with Zsombor image

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

2010-10-13 Thread Zsombor
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 the installation (using expert64 boot option). I didn't look to At http://171.19.196.12/dl/deb

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

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
Also, I'm not sure if this is relevant but only the late 2005 Power Mac G5s has PCIe whereas all previous revs used PCI-X. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5#Product_revision_history -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

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

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > To help about this _specific_ issue, please report to #572869. Your SATA > controller should have been supported by yaboot, as I thought that > changes made to 1.3.16 fixed that, but it doesn't seem to be the case. > To help diagnose the pro

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

2010-10-11 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Gaudenz, Le lundi 11 octobre 2010 à 09:41 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > Did you only modify the yaboot package or did you modify > yaboot-installer as well? I only modified the yaboot package. From what I gathered regarding this update, yaboot-installer will need a small change too for P

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

2010-10-11 Thread zsombibi
Hello all Thanks Benjamin, 2010.10.11. 0:21 Benjamin Cama : any nobody else will want to help us if we don't try to do things in a more organized way. We already had no help from the di team about this new yaboot release, let's hope that by making things the "right way" we'll get more help.

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

2010-10-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Benjamin Excerpts from Benjamin Cama's message of Mon Okt 11 00:21:23 +0200 2010: > That's where I am asking for help from the d-i team: how could we test > this new package from a d-i install disc ? Is there an easier and more > "officially-compliant" way, so that we can report bugs without d

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

2010-10-10 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Zsombor, First, my apologies for being so slow to answer. And thank you for the custom installer you built. I am very thankfull for your enthusiasm, but I would like to point out some thing that you're doing wrong. I am saying that not to deter anyone to do anything, but to try to be more orga