Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:36:13AM -0800, Joaquin Menchaca wrote: > Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > >Hi! > > > >Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and > >noticed that > >the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel > >seems to be needed), > >I did

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Joaquin Menchaca
Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi! Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and noticed that the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel seems to be needed), I did some integration on this and added a "pseries" target to the debian installer including

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:05:53PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Am 20.12.2004 um 15:59 schrieb Sven Luther: > > [...] > > >Mmm, not sure about this, debian-boot@lists.debian.org would be the > >best place > >to ask about this. Did you try the network-console installation ? > > It's a bit hig

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 20.12.2004 um 15:59 schrieb Sven Luther: [...] Mmm, not sure about this, debian-boot@lists.debian.org would be the best place to ask about this. Did you try the network-console installation ? It's a bit high traffic there. I've asked some questions there, but never got answers, maybe th

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 20.12.2004 um 15:37 schrieb Sven Luther: [...] works fine. Besides this, only a 2.6.9+ makes sense because of the included virtualization features. The 2.6.8(.1) did not boot a p670 at all, while the p615 and new power5 machines did.o Yep, i am working on real 64bit kernels, but saddly la

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:47:41PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > I've subscribed to the list, if it's used or not. I'd like to > participate in the ppc64 > stuff, sure. All development takes place at the ppc64 project on alioth? Cool. Well, it is a matter of some dispute. The original ppc64 gu

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 20.12.2004 um 14:37 schrieb Sven Luther: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:19:06PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi! Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:19:28PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Am 20.12.2004 um 14:37 schrieb Sven Luther: > > >On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:19:06PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > >> > >>Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: > >> > >>>On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pol

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:38:12AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Hi, > > > Why won't the 32bit power4 kernels boot on these machines ? They should, > > only > > the iseries really need a 64bit kernel. > > The 32bit kernel does not have the pseries LPAR interfaces and so will > not boot on

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > Why won't the 32bit power4 kernels boot on these machines ? They should, only > the iseries really need a 64bit kernel. The 32bit kernel does not have the pseries LPAR interfaces and so will not boot on a partitioned POWER4 box or any POWER5 box. Anton

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Hi! Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and noticed that the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel seems to be needed), I did s

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:19:06PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > > Am 20.12.2004 um 13:59 schrieb Sven Luther: > > >On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and > >>noticed that > >>the d

Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: > Hi! > > Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and > noticed that > the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel seems > to be needed), > I did some integration on this and added a

Installer for power4 and power5 systems

2004-12-19 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hi! Since I had access for some power4 and power5 System the last time and noticed that the debian installer didn't work on this hardware (a 64bit kernel seems to be needed), I did some integration on this and added a "pseries" target to the debian installer including the 64 bit kernel and a