Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:38:47AM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > Tell me seriously this guy can't burn a netinst CD ? > Don't really know. At worst, I can do that for him. The point is he wants > sarge. Yep, sarge for newer ppc64 machine is not a good choice kernel-wise.

Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-20 Thread Lucio Crusca
Sven Luther wrote: > Tell me seriously this guy can't burn a netinst CD ? Don't really know. At worst, I can do that for him. The point is he wants sarge. > The best option would > be to do that, and then use debootstrap if he really wants sarge over > etch. Ok, I didn't know of that chance. But

Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 05:34:23PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > Well, bad luck then, my feeling, but i didn't read the begining of this > > exchange, is that the sarge ppc cd doesn't allow him to install on his > > machine. > > The only alternative I see is to install Sar

Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
Sven Luther wrote: > Well, bad luck then, my feeling, but i didn't read the begining of this > exchange, is that the sarge ppc cd doesn't allow him to install on his > machine. The only alternative I see is to install Sarge from MacOSX. Is it possible? Has anyone already tried that? -- To UNSU

Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:49:42PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > > This is a 32bit power4 kernel, most probably 2.6.8 currently in sarge. > > > > Lucio, could you please test the powerpc64 install with the newer daily > I'm afraid I can't, because, for sake of brevity, I've

Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
Sven Luther wrote: > This is a 32bit power4 kernel, most probably 2.6.8 currently in sarge. > > Lucio, could you please test the powerpc64 install with the newer daily I'm afraid I can't, because, for sake of brevity, I've said I was facing this problem while the real truth is that a customer is

Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:52:46PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Which kernel did you try to boot ? > > "install-power4" This is a 32bit power4 kernel, most probably 2.6.8 currently in sarge. Lucio, could you please test the powerpc64 install with the newer daily

Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Which kernel did you try to boot ? "install-power4" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 17:12 +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Hello *, > > I'm trying to install Sarge on a dual G5 from the official DVD iso, but the > kernel hangs on boot with the following messages: Which kernel did you try to boot ? Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

2005-10-18 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, I'm trying to install Sarge on a dual G5 from the official DVD iso, but the kernel hangs on boot with the following messages: ... ok opening diplay /[EMAIL PROTECTED],f000/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED] ok opening OF device tree... done starting CPU /cpus/PowerPc,g5...f