Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success

2011-08-01 Thread Gasha
Morning, Another success with IBM Power6/7 LPAR install. Installed squeeze netinst, and got it booted just fine after upgrade to latest yaboot from sid: dpkg -i yaboot_1.3.16-2_powerpc.deb + old style /dev/sda device names in /etc/yaboot.conf and /etc/fstab. Gasha On 07/29/2011 06:39 PM, Ge

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success

2011-07-29 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi, On 07/28/2011 01:08 AM, Gasha wrote: > Finally i get system booted. You should file an installation report. That is one way the installer devs know what to work on. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s04.html#submit-bug -Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-req

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel - success

2011-07-28 Thread Gasha
Finally i get system booted. I already downloaded Fedora 12 DVD latest build, but decided to try harder with Debian. Things i learned: 1) for some reason passing video=ofonly works never for first time, but mostly for second boot try. 2) here you can download daily builds: http://cdimage.debi

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread David Ricar
On 07/27/2011 02:11 PM, Gasha wrote: Well, it is not so easy... 64-bit kernel loads, but it restarts. For me it looks like loading of initrd stops at the same place, as if there is no "video=ofonly" parameter specified. "Calling ibm,client-architecture-support..." Plan B was to try latest testi

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread Gasha
Well, it is not so easy... 64-bit kernel loads, but it restarts. For me it looks like loading of initrd stops at the same place, as if there is no "video=ofonly" parameter specified. "Calling ibm,client-architecture-support..." Plan B was to try latest testing/wheezy, however latest build is u

Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:24:44AM +0300, Gasha wrote: > Hi list, > > just a short introduction... > i'm a long time unix/linux user, and finally decided to join some > linux development mailing lists. > > recently we got new Power7 machine, and i tried > latest-squeeze-netinst.iso yesterday. > L