Re: g5 install problem

2010-08-04 Thread gomaaz
Am 31.05.10 09:40, schrieb Ron Brooks: Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the black bootstrap screen which asks if I want to boo

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Gary
did you install stable or testing? I've not encountered problems with stable on the G5 but testing is still a work in progress. as mentioned before, be sure to choose the 64-bit version. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ron Brooks wrote: Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the black bootstrap screen which ask

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread nello martuscielli
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ron Brooks wrote: > Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I > have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to > install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the > black bootstrap screen which as

g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Brooks
Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the black bootstrap screen which asks if I want to boot from the hd or cd. I choose hd but it j

Re: Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-06-01 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:41:53 +0800 Louie Miranda wrote: > Amit, sorry I was not able to reply sooner. I ditched the machine in the > meantime and just used a 32bit system to make my work less complicated. No problem. I hope you are having a better experience now. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-06-01 Thread Louie Miranda
Amit, sorry I was not able to reply sooner. I ditched the machine in the meantime and just used a 32bit system to make my work less complicated. -- Louie Miranda (lmira...@gmail.com) http://www.louiemiranda.net Quality Web Hosting - www.axishift.com Pinoy Web Hosting, Web Hosting Philippines On

Re: Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-04-29 Thread Sujit Karataparambil
Thanks For that Information. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:23:18 +0530 > Sujit Karataparambil wrote: > >> Why is there an assumption that the PPC based debian is installed in the >> board. >> > > Because its installed in a Apple PMAC G5 whic

Re: Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-04-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:23:18 +0530 Sujit Karataparambil wrote: > Why is there an assumption that the PPC based debian is installed in the > board. > Because its installed in a Apple PMAC G5 which is a PPC based machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-04-29 Thread Sujit Karataparambil
Why is there an assumption that the PPC based debian is installed in the board. On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:54 PM, oswaldkelso wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:05:27 +0800 > Louie Miranda wrote: > >> After installation, then it reboots. >> >> It shows the boot prompt l for linux or c for cdrom. Whe

Re: Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-04-29 Thread oswaldkelso
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:05:27 +0800 Louie Miranda wrote: > After installation, then it reboots. > > It shows the boot prompt l for linux or c for cdrom. When it boots to > l for linux, there are three dots ... then after a few seconds it > loops again on the boot prompt. I think the kernel cannot

Re: Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-04-28 Thread Louie Miranda
After installation, then it reboots. It shows the boot prompt l for linux or c for cdrom. When it boots to l for linux, there are three dots ... then after a few seconds it loops again on the boot prompt. I think the kernel cannot be seen? -- Louie Miranda (lmira...@gmail.com) http://www.louiemira

Re: Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-04-28 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:38:56 +0800 Louie Miranda wrote: > Hi, I am trying to install Debian 5 Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. > > Installation was successful, however upon rebooting. It won't load the > kernel. I tried to go back to boot again the CD and tried to mount the > system, and it did. > >

Installed Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Install: OK, did not boot the Kernel after.

2009-04-28 Thread Louie Miranda
Hi, I am trying to install Debian 5 Lenny on a Apple MacPro G5. Installation was successful, however upon rebooting. It won't load the kernel. I tried to go back to boot again the CD and tried to mount the system, and it did. I am lost why the kernel did not boot properly? Help! -- Louie Miranda

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: dmesg has PHY ID: 2060d2, addr: 0 and eth0: Found Generic MII PHY That means your kernel is too old :) You need up to date sungem support for the Vesta PHY chip Ben. Oh well, so much for a network install. Thanks for clarifying the

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> dmesg has > PHY ID: 2060d2, addr: 0 > and > eth0: Found Generic MII PHY That means your kernel is too old :) You need up to date sungem support for the Vesta PHY chip Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The sungem module is loaded. I'm more than a little puzzled - the box works adequately in osx (increased and tested memory yesterday, partitioned, reinstalled panther, upgraded to tiger) but it just doesn't want to network with linux. You

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> The sungem module is loaded. I'm more than a little puzzled - the box > works adequately in osx (increased and tested memory yesterday, > partitioned, reinstalled panther, upgraded to tiger) but it just doesn't > want to network with linux. You may need updated code to deal with the PHY c

G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, I've got myself a refurb 1.8 GHz single processor powermac, according to /proc/cpuinfo this is a PPC970FX PowerMac9,1 detected as 337 (PowerMac G5). This is the second version, with the cheaper motherboard. My problem is that the nic doesn't seem to work in linux (although osx gets a

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 26/10/05, Enrique Morfin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > What kind of problem is that? What can i do? > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday > >[19 Oct 05] secure apt [WWW] won't work with any > > debian CDs as it cannot > >validate them; this breaks all CD images except

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Enrique Morfin
> > What kind of problem is that? What can i do? > > Mmm, indeed, that is a problem listed on : > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday >[19 Oct 05] secure apt [WWW] won't work with any > debian CDs as it cannot >validate them; this breaks all CD images except > businesscard and

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:06:44PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > > What kind of problem is that? What can i do? > > > > Mmm, indeed, that is a problem listed on : > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday > >[19 Oct 05] secure apt [WWW] won't work with any > > debian CDs as it

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Enrique Morfin
> > Hi! > > > > I want to install osX and debian on a g5 (just one > > disk). > > > > The partition table can be similar to a tibook?: > > > > hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple > > hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap > > hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap > > hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root

Re: g5 install

2005-10-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:06:15AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Yesterday I tried: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso > > > Oct 23 and Oct 22. > > both failed :( > > both of them with the same problem: > > It all began great (i

Re: g5 install

2005-09-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:57:14PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Hi! > > I want to install osX and debian on a g5 (just one > disk). > > The partition table can be similar to a tibook?: > > hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple > hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap > hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR

g5 install

2005-09-26 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I want to install osX and debian on a g5 (just one disk). The partition table can be similar to a tibook?: hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root hda5 Apple_HFS MacOS-X hda6

G5 install media.

2004-10-13 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, Some times ago I installed sarge on a biG5-1.8GHz with some debian installer tweaking. today I have the same machine kind to install for a workmate, wich installer did you recomend dailly build or the current sarge installer-powerpc thank's Eric -- «Le monochrome

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:59:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can > > load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty > > careful to allow a user

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:59:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can > > > load a particular module, when the rest of t

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:59:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can > > load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty > > careful to allow a user

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:26:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now > > > gets into the installer.

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Brad Boyer wrote: > I found the crash. One of the partman scripts does a "modprobe floppy" > without any way around it. Since all the legacy drivers that poke ISA > addresses crash a G5, this module is instant death. I was able to get > past this step by removing floppy.o (or floppy.ko with 2.6) be

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can > load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty > careful to allow a user in expert mode to override module selection. > Of course, loading a module

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:26:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now > > gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the > > disks, in the same a

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:26:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now > > gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the > > disks, in the same a

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now > gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the > disks, in the same approximate spot that it does when using the 2.4 > kernel. I'll see what I c

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:30:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > Older 2.6 installs fail with the serial driver problem, and while > > > the more recent ones get past tha

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-08 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:30:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > Older 2.6 installs fail with the serial driver problem, and while > > the more recent ones get past that, they fail right after a message > > about AT keyboard support. >

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > Older 2.6 installs fail with the serial driver problem, and while > the more recent ones get past that, they fail right after a message > about AT keyboard support. I'm working on a possible fix for this now; if you could try the sid_d-

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Brad Boyer
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:39:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > How recent are we talking about here (URL of download), and exactly what > are the failures? I believe these are the three images I tried. I don't remember exactly which ones failed where on the 2.6, but they all died on various legac

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > I'm not used to having to ask this sort of question, but has anyone > actually been able to finish an install with d-i on a G5? I just > got a dual 2.0 G5 (the original model, not the new one) and I can't > get the installer to work.

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 05:28:26AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > I'm not used to having to ask this sort of question, but has anyone > actually been able to finish an install with d-i on a G5? I just > got a dual 2.0 G5 (the original model, not the new one) and I can't > get the installer to work. I'v

G5 install?

2004-07-05 Thread Brad Boyer
I'm not used to having to ask this sort of question, but has anyone actually been able to finish an install with d-i on a G5? I just got a dual 2.0 G5 (the original model, not the new one) and I can't get the installer to work. I've tried beta4, tc1, and a daily sid_d-i for 7/4. They all fail in m

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-29 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: > Eric Deveaud a écrit : > > OK it work's but just a question before my 3 workmate kills me. > > is there such news about the fan support ? > > > > or should I have to put the machine to the server room ? > modprobe therm_pm72 just one word from my workmate:

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:28:45AM +0100, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a biG5 lying on my desktop, could someone point me to a iso > image that will allow me to install debian on this machine Recent daily builds of the debian-installer should allow you to do that. The yaboot.conf

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:07, Yves Combe wrote: > Eric Deveaud a écrit : > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: > >>ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/ > > > thank's I'll give a try to the pre10 or pre7 > > as you mentionned the pre12 does not work on the G5. > > Thank you for the tra

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: > Eric Deveaud a écrit : > > OK it work's but just a question before my 3 workmate kills me. > > is there such news about the fan support ? > > > > or should I have to put the machine to the server room ? > modprobe therm_pm72 thank's I'll give it a try (and

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Yves Combe
Eric Deveaud a écrit : OK it work's but just a question before my 3 workmate kills me. is there such news about the fan support ? or should I have to put the machine to the server room ? modprobe therm_pm72 -- yves

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Colin Leroy
>OK it work's but just a question before my 3 workmate kills me. >is there such news about the fan support ? Starting with 2.6.3 (main tree, a bit before on Ben's tree), it works. -- Colin This message represents the official view of the voices in my head.

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Yves Combe
Eric Deveaud a écrit : On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/ thank's I'll give a try to the pre10 or pre7 as you mentionned the pre12 does not work on the G5. Thank you for the translation, and i apologize for french post. The pre12 has a 64bit

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Eric Deveaud wrote: > > Le dernière (k-mib-ppc-beta-pre12) ne marche pas sur les G5. Mais la > > pre10 si. > > ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/ > thank's I'll give a try to the pre10 or pre7 > as you mentionned the pre12 does not work on the G5. hummm OK it wor

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Yves Combe wrote: > Eric Deveaud a écrit : > Bonjour Eric, > > > Hi, > > > > I have a biG5 lying on my desktop, could someone point me to a iso > > image that will allow me to install debian on this machine > > > > thank's > > Les k-mib-ppc-beta-preX sont des livecd à

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Fleny68
Eric Deveaud a écrit : Hi, I have a biG5 lying on my desktop, could someone point me to a iso image that will allow me to install debian on this machine You can try with this one and use debootstrap. ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/k-mib-ppc-beta-pre7.iso Regards, -- F

Re: G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Yves Combe
Eric Deveaud a écrit : Bonjour Eric, Hi, I have a biG5 lying on my desktop, could someone point me to a iso image that will allow me to install debian on this machine thank's Les k-mib-ppc-beta-preX sont des livecd à la knoppix. Tu peux utiliser debootstrap pour installer de

G5 install media

2004-03-26 Thread Eric Deveaud
Hi, I have a biG5 lying on my desktop, could someone point me to a iso image that will allow me to install debian on this machine thank's -- à mail and news de microsoft, ont pouvait faire un del total de tous messages sur tous les news groupes (c'est l'un des bugs du logicie