Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-15 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 15.01.2005 um 00:42 schrieb Anton Blanchard: Hi, I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-15 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am 15.01.2005 um 00:42 schrieb Anton Blanchard: Hi, I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MH

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-14 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, > but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 375

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-14 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, > but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. Nice, it gets a lot further on POWER3 now :) It stops right here: time_init: decrementer frequency = 93.748235 MHz time_init: processor frequency = 375

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-10 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hiho, I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. The tg3 drivers have been added, too. You may try anyway ;-) Cheers, Cajus

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-10 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Hiho, I've just updated the installer image to have no POWER4+ optimization, but the language chooser seems to be broken. I've no idea why. The tg3 drivers have been added, too. You may try anyway ;-) Cheers, Cajus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
On Freitag 07 Januar 2005 15:11, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > I just tried it on my POWER3 box. You dont happen to have > > CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY enabled do you? That option enables some minor > > optimisations that actually prevent booting on older boxes. > > It boots on a 1.6GHz JS20 blade. Unfort

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2005 14:47 schrieb Anton Blanchard: > Hi, > > > There's a 64-bit tftp installer image based on kernel 2.6.10 here: > > > > http://debian.gonicus.de/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-powerpc/pseries.i > >mg > > > > Since most installer packages are not "official" yet, you've to co

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-07 Thread Anton Blanchard
> This option is enabled because the kernel was targeted to IBM pseries systems > which have POWER(4/4+/5) processors. > > I've disabled this in the config now, but will rebuild the kernel on the next > build cycle since this is somewhat time consuming. Will trop you a message. Thanks! Im loo

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-07 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > There's a 64-bit tftp installer image based on kernel 2.6.10 here: > > http://debian.gonicus.de/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-powerpc/pseries.img > > Since most installer packages are not "official" yet, you've to continue the > net installation by choosing the mirror manually to soun

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-07 Thread Anton Blanchard
> I just tried it on my POWER3 box. You dont happen to have > CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY enabled do you? That option enables some minor > optimisations that actually prevent booting on older boxes. It boots on a 1.6GHz JS20 blade. Unfortunately I couldnt bring up a network, we need the tg3 driver as a m

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-07 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2005 08:34 schrieb Sven Luther: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:33:00AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > Oh, if it is the js20, i think we had had some report of people trying > > > to make it work some time back. I don't think d-i is already upto it, > > > but the work Cajus

Re : G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-07 Thread grave
Hi, Sorry for not beeing precise, the system is indeed composed of 7 JS20. Thanks for the information, I'll report about the installation with d-i. xavier Le 07.01.2005 00:42:00, Sven Luther a écrit : On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:41:37PM +, grave wrote: > Hi all, > > After a few tests, my

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:33:00AM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > Oh, if it is the js20, i think we had had some report of people trying to > > make > > it work some time back. I don't think d-i is already upto it, but the work > > Cajus is doing should help. There may be kernel issues, but

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-06 Thread Anton Blanchard
> Oh, if it is the js20, i think we had had some report of people trying to make > it work some time back. I don't think d-i is already upto it, but the work > Cajus is doing should help. There may be kernel issues, but maybe the latest > bunch of 970Fx fixes will help, or maybe you need a ppc64

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:18:44PM -0600, vinai wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:41:37PM +, grave wrote: > > > > If it is apple machine, see the thread about dual-G5 from a few days > > ago, > > especially my recent post. > > I don't think he's talking about an Apple machine. I too wa

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-06 Thread vinai
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:41:37PM +, grave wrote: > > If it is apple machine, see the thread about dual-G5 from a few days > ago, > especially my recent post. I don't think he's talking about an Apple machine. I too was curious about his question about the system they got, and it looks li

Re: G5 blade center under debian

2005-01-06 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:41:37PM +, grave wrote: > Hi all, > > After a few tests, my lab choose to go for a blade center with 7 dual > G5 running @2.2 GHz. I would like to know if somebody already > experimented Debian on such configuration. What exactly is it ? Is it a bunch of apple X