On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 07:04:56PM +0100, Alexander Baldeck wrote:
> Christian Walther wrote:
> >The installation works very well, booting from a tftp-Server is no
> >problem, partitioning the disks is none, too. I used the "Guided
> >Partitioning - Entire disk using LVM" method and the Debian-Inst
Christian Walther wrote:
The installation works very well, booting from a tftp-Server is no
problem, partitioning the disks is none, too. I used the "Guided
Partitioning - Entire disk using LVM" method and the Debian-Installer
created and configured a PReP Boot Partition (8 Megs).
Firewire is wo
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:00:09PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote:
> On 02/03/07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:26:29AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote:
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> [...]
> >
> >Cool, you used an etch installer,did you not.
>
> I forgot to mention, bu
On 02/03/07, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:26:29AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote:
> Hi list,
>
[...]
Cool, you used an etch installer,did you not.
I forgot to mention, but you're right, yes I did.
Would you care to review the installation manual in orde
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:26:29AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I found a thread concerning installing Debian on a Motorola Powerstack
> II from December last year in the archives. Since I have one of those
> machines here I tried to install Debian on it. (One
Hi list,
I found a thread concerning installing Debian on a Motorola Powerstack
II from December last year in the archives. Since I have one of those
machines here I tried to install Debian on it. (One reason being to
have another machine to check my firewire HDD with - read my previous
post
Hello everybody,
my earlyer request and the answers on it have brought me to the conclusion
that the only way to boot and install the Mototrola Powerstack II is to
download a netboot CD image, boot it from tftp and go through the network
install process.
Obviously only the Etch image will do t
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 20:49 schrieb Sven Luther:
>
> > you somehow don't get prep-installer, please fill a bug report.
>
> I'm considering that, but first I want to make sure that the major problem is
> not my l
On Jan 2, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote:
this sounds like the older sarge installer images, not latest etch.
According to my filesystem info, I downloaded this from the debian
site on
December 20th.
If possible, please try a "daily" installer image from:
http://cd
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 20:49 schrieb Sven Luther:
> you somehow don't get prep-installer, please fill a bug report.
I'm considering that, but first I want to make sure that the major problem is
not my lack of understanding basic ppc or OF concepts (since 1988, this is my
first step away fr
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:59:18PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 09:56 schrieb Sven Luther:
> > Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's
> > mediation attempt.
>
> Let's hope this will be sorted out in a way that's acceptable
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 09:56 schrieb Sven Luther:
> Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's
> mediation attempt.
Let's hope this will be sorted out in a way that's acceptable to all parties
involved.
> Normally the installer should have done prep-install, and
Last post here except one, due to my self-imposed ban asked by Fabio's
mediation attempt. I will restrain to private replies in the future, with the
exception of mails in this sub-thread, where i clearly can be helpful.
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:30:44AM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote:
>
Am Dienstag, 2. Januar 2007 01:30 schrieb Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister:
> Last output was something like:
The exact message was (translated from German back into English):
"No boot loader was installed. Either you have determined not to install one,
or your architecture does not support boot load
Am Donnerstag, 21. Dezember 2006 18:21 schrieb Alex:
> I can confirm the suggestion by Sven. The machine boots perfectly but
> just not from anything else.
Hi there,
first of all, I wish everybody a happy new year 2007.
OK, I've been able to boot now from a local tftp server as suggested. The
s
Sven Luther wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:03:22PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack
II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be
supported.
I downloaded the cu
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:03:22PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack
> II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be
> supported.
>
> I dow
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack
II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be
supported.
I downloaded the current floppy images and the CD #1, but I can't boot
from any of these. Booting from floppy
Hi,
Michael Rex writes:
> Are you sure the image supports serial console?
Yes. You may need to type "console=ttyS0" at the "Linux/PPC load:" prompt.
Regards, Jens.
--
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Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
Quoth Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Just netboot the powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd file, and you should be
> dropped directly in the debian-installer. If this doesn't work, fill a bug
> report against debian-installer. If it works, please go to /root, and fill an
> installation report fr
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 04:31:32PM +, Michael Rex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Debian on a Motorola PowerStack. A quite
> challenging task so far. The machine doesn't have a CD-ROM, nor do I
> have a keyboard for it. So I'm stuck with doing a netinst
Hi,
I'm trying to install Debian on a Motorola PowerStack. A quite
challenging task so far. The machine doesn't have a CD-ROM, nor do I
have a keyboard for it. So I'm stuck with doing a netinstall using the
serial console.
Accessing the PowerStack via serial console works, I hav
since i copy the kernel there
> with
> > > dd if=zImage.prep of=/dev/sda1
> > > and then i can boot from openfirmware with "boot hdisk"
> >
> > Ok, you boot directly from the bare disk.
> >
> > It must be /dev/sda1, right ?
> >
> I did not te
i don't need a filesystem at all on sda1 since i copy the kernel there
with
> > dd if=zImage.prep of=/dev/sda1
> > and then i can boot from openfirmware with "boot hdisk"
>
> Ok, you boot directly from the bare disk.
>
> It must be /dev/sda1, right ?
>
I di
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:53:51PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:03:43PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > >
> > > - Original Message -
> > > From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTE
- Original Message -
From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:03:43PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > The only thing is that it can not install the bootloader... the
> >
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:03:43PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > The only thing is that it can not install the bootloader... the
> bootloader
> > > should be copied to /dev/sda1 with dd but since i made automatic
>
- Original Message -
From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The only thing is that it can not install the bootloader... the
bootloader
> > should be copied to /dev/sda1 with dd but since i made automatic
> > partitioning /dev/sda1 is / and so i don't think this is a good idea ;)
but
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:03:17PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:02:01AM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > > I suppose it is because it downloaded parts of the system from the net
> and
> >
- Original Message -
From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:02:01AM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > I suppose it is because it downloaded parts of the system from the net
and
> > so has a newer packages.gz than the one on the cd.. i will try to
install
> >
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:02:01AM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> Ok works perfectly now... But it did not want to install from cdrom
> automaticaly (but from net)... so i mounted the cdrom to /cdrom and it
Yeah, well, it is a a netboot initrd. I will try building the cdrom
initrd, as i am told
- Original Message -
From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:10:05PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert w
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:10:05PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd:
> > > http://peop
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:10:05PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd:
> > > http://peop
- Original Message -
From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ok, can you give us the output of lspci and lspci -n, so we can have
> more info on your system.
>
lspci:
00:0b.0 ISA bridge: Symphony Labs W83C553 (rev 10)
00:0b.1 IDE interface: Symphony Labs SL82c105 (rev 05)
00:0c.0 SCSI s
- Original Message -
From: "Sven Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd:
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd
>
> Please try again w
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd:
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd
Please try again with :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.25-powerpc-prep.initrd
CCing the debian-boot lists, since this is relevant there.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 03:08:50PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd:
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd
I have some problems for the 2.4.25 prep
I succesfully booted the Powerstack with this initrd:
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/vmlinuz-2.4.22-powerpc-prep.initrd
It boots without problems... It downloads the installer components without
any problems but then it complains about not finding the cdrom drivers. In
the console i can see
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:40:07 +0200, Dave Russell wrote:
> I have had a Motorola
> PowerPC sitting on my desk for years collecting dust and I would like to get
> it working with debian linux.
You might want to check http://penguinppc.org./ to see if your
specific model is supported. Then
Hey
there everyone
I
am a serious nuub to this area, and even linux. I have had a Motorola
PowerPC
sitting on my desk for years collecting dust and I would like to get it working
with debian linux. Could
any one please help me on getting this running? And where would/should I start?
Hi,
Ingo Steinert wrote,
> hy,
>
> i have just installed debian woody on my motorola powerstack. it runs
> perfectly..;-))
>
> but one question: which bootloader ist the "right" for the motorola
> powerstack (alias bull estrella) with openfirmware?
>
&g
hy,
i have just installed debian woody on my motorola powerstack. it runs
perfectly..;-))
but one question: which bootloader ist the "right" for the motorola
powerstack (alias bull estrella) with openfirmware?
or can anyone send me a configfile? ;-)
thank you very much..
bye
I've installed DebianPPC on my Motorola PowerStack, all work fine but I've a
trouble, whe I try to halt the system, the system reboot.
I've tried with:
# init 0
and also:
# halt
but when appear the message "system halted" it reboot again
* Lorenzo De Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Can anyone help me ?> I would like to install Linux Debian on a
> Motorola PowerStack, what kind of kernel is supported ?
The kernel that comes with Debian should be finde.
If you see error messages which tell you about timeouts in
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:55:16PM +0100, Lorenzo De Vito wrote:
> Can anyone help me ?
> I would like to install Linux Debian on a Motorola PowerStack, what kind of
> kernel is supported ? Where I can find ISO ? Where I can find documentation
> ? Thank you.
Have a look at: http://ppc
Can anyone help me ?
I would like to install Linux Debian on a Motorola PowerStack, what kind of
kernel is supported ? Where I can find ISO ? Where I can find documentation
? Thank you.
I found if i created /dev/sda2 as a PReP Boot partition type and just
dd'd to it then it work'd without having to use a boot floppy... Problem I
ran into is it seems like the 2.4 kernel images are building the standard
vmlinuz-2.4.x and a vmlinux.coff-2.4.x... With the 2.2 kernel it just cr
> Also anyone know what should be the correct steps to be taken
> to install the kernel on this beast? The initial install handled it
> fine but no other kernel-image-* builds have do so on it's own...
What I do is first, dd the zImage.prep to a floppy and boot from that one
(PBOOT 1 0 in t
Is anyone aware if this problem is also replicated in the
PReP Blackhawk (Powerstack) riscPC boxes wiht the NCR810 controller?
Also anyone know what should be the correct steps to be taken
to install the kernel on this beast? The initial install handled it
fine but no other kernel
Hiya
> I can't seem to get 2.4 kernels to run reliably on my PReP moto
> powerstack/riscPC box with an NCR825 wide controller.
>
> it boots up, goes thru the init scripts, but gets into SCSI timeouts
> before it even manages to bring up a login prompt -- SCSI timeouts on
> all three disks (al
hi,
I can't seem to get 2.4 kernels to run reliably on my PReP moto
powerstack/riscPC box with an NCR825 wide controller.
it boots up, goes thru the init scripts, but gets into SCSI timeouts
before it even manages to bring up a login prompt -- SCSI timeouts on
all three disks (all wide), for r
Frank Weis wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 24 January 2001 19:43, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Frank Weis wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 24 January 2001 12:34, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > > Frank Weis wrote:
> > > > > does anybody know how to disable the internal
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 19:43, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Frank Weis wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 January 2001 12:34, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > > Frank Weis wrote:
> > > > does anybody know how to disable the internal CLGD5434 in a
> > > > Motorola Powerst
Frank Weis wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 24 January 2001 12:34, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > Frank Weis wrote:
> > > does anybody know how to disable the internal CLGD5434 in a
> > > Motorola Powerstack 604? I'd love to run X on this machine but
> > > kernels b
On Wednesday 24 January 2001 12:34, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Frank Weis wrote:
> > does anybody know how to disable the internal CLGD5434 in a
> > Motorola Powerstack 604? I'd love to run X on this machine but
> > kernels below 2.4 don't support the CL and kernel 2.4
Frank Weis wrote:
> does anybody know how to disable the internal CLGD5434 in a
> Motorola Powerstack 604? I'd love to run X on this machine but
> kernels below 2.4 don't support the CL and kernel 2.4 has broken support for
> the NCR-810 SCSI.
Why would you have to di
Hi all,
does anybody know how to disable the internal CLGD5434 in a
Motorola Powerstack 604? I'd love to run X on this machine but
kernels below 2.4 don't support the CL and kernel 2.4 has broken support for
the NCR-810 SCSI.
Has anybody gotten X to work on a Powerstack?
Does anybod
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