I'm like Jens, I just got my G5 a couple weeks ago and
have been RTFMing before starting an install. I'll be
willing to help test the debian-installer on the G5.
Let me know when/if there's something available to
test before beta 4.
--- Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 200
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:58:52AM -0700, Scott McMahan wrote:
> I'm like Jens, I just got my G5 a couple weeks ago and
> have been RTFMing before starting an install. I'll be
> willing to help test the debian-installer on the G5.
> Let me know when/if there's something available to
> test before
Hi,
Sven Luther writes:
> Err, would you please care about sending a bug report about this problem ?
Done.
> I asked for G5 tests since some time now, but nobody cared to try it
> out.
Well, it took some effort to get hold of yorick and put Debian on him.
> Yes, please, we need to have this k
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:52:58PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sven Luther writes:
>
> > Err, would you please care about sending a bug report about this problem ?
>
> Done.
Cool.
> > I asked for G5 tests since some time now, but nobody cared to try it
> > out.
>
> Well, it took s
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:40:36PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Scott McMahan writes:
>
> > Any thoughts?
>
> Yes. The power4 kernel in debian-installer is hosed. I rebuilt the
> kernel from kernel-source-2.4.25 with kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc
> applied, using the g5_defconfig file
Hi,
Scott McMahan writes:
> Any thoughts?
Yes. The power4 kernel in debian-installer is hosed. I rebuilt the
kernel from kernel-source-2.4.25 with kernel-patch-2.4.25-powerpc
applied, using the g5_defconfig file from Ben's tree with devfs
enabled. And it worked nicely.
I'll narrow down the p
Hi,
Colin Watson writes:
> I found that you have to hack yaboot to increase its TFTP buffer size.
> Look for LOAD_BUFFER_SIZE in second/fs_of.c; 0x50 will do.
Thanks for the hint, it fixed the kernel loading problem indeed.
Now I'm stuck at the same do_IRQ message that the original poster
r
Hi,
Colin Watson writes:
> Apparently yaboot 2.0 will have this fixed properly, but perhaps I
> should file a bug to have the buffer size increased a bit for sarge.
Indeed. And it would be nice to have a working version of yaboot
somewhere in the netboot directory.
Regards, Jens.
--
J'qbpbe,
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:34:13PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Scott McMahan writes:
> > Yaboot starts off fine, and when I enter /install/power4/vmlinux at
> > the prompt, the kernel starts loading.
>
> Lucky you. I just tried to netboot a G5, and yaboot fails to load the
> kernel via tftp,
Hi,
Scott McMahan writes:
> Yaboot starts off fine, and when I enter /install/power4/vmlinux at
> the prompt, the kernel starts loading.
Lucky you. I just tried to netboot a G5, and yaboot fails to load the
kernel via tftp, where previously Open Firmware loaded yaboot and
yaboot.conf from the s
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