Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-16 Thread Zsombor
ssion. With regards, Zsombor 2010/9/16 Benjamin Cama : > Hi, > > I am trying to exactly understand the bugs that currently affect the > Debian PPC port and particularly yaboot. There are many bugs around it, > but even before trying to fix them, we should check if it's ev

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-17 Thread Zsombor
BM and Bull machines), maybe pSeries, too. Next week I can provide more details. However, my work will be limited to testing, I dont think I can participate to reliable package maintenance work. Zsombor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-09-29 Thread Zsombor
I want to check how it works with XFS. With the latest weekly build, it didnt and I had to use the old ext3. I think I can get back to you in 2 days or the beginning of next week at the latest. Regards, Zsombor On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Hi everyone, > > S

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - report installation PowerMac G5

2010-10-01 Thread Zsombor
s but I prefer xfs. Today I've built a minimal di with simple-cdd but I got bored with the startup time of the machine. This cdimage contains the base system only with ssh, if someone is interested in it I can make it public. Of course after my successful install :) Regards, Zsombor -- To UN

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-01 Thread Zsombor
or xfs. I forgot to ask, regarding to the di installer: should I perform any additional hack, eg. in yaboot-installer? (it may be a stupid question, I'm only an end-user) What I did until now, just replaced yaboot package 1.3.13a-1 to 1.3.16. Regards, Zsombor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-05 Thread Zsombor
D = 0 PFW: Unable to send error log! ofdbg 0 > Do you have any advise? Maybe I missed something from the installer? Regards, Zsombor On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Zsombor wrote: > Thank you Benjamin, > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: >>> My IBM p550 h

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-05 Thread Zsombor
another ISO and I gladly package it. Regards, Zsombor On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Hi, > > Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Zsombor a écrit : >> Oct  5 14:11:33 yaboot-installer: chroot: can't execute 'mkofboot': No >> su

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-06 Thread Zsombor
Thank you all. Temporarly, I uploaded the ISO, md5 and the important README file to: http://visaportal.hu/dl/debppc/ Where you can download them. Gary, I already uploaded the ISO to your ftp site. MD5 checksum is: 6278f3a71c19828e4532578e81fbf0ef Thank you again, Zsombor On Wed, Oct 6, 2010

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Zsombor
remotely via serial console so I cannot test the GUI :) However after a successful startup I think everything should work well as the official images do so. Regards, Zsombor On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Gary wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Zsombor wrote:

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-07 Thread Zsombor
t view, it seems yaboot cannot determine device/OFpath pairs but I can't find out why. On my Power5, yaboot.conf was created by the debian-installer, and it does not contain 'ofboot=' section. (I've left yaboot.conf untouched) Additionally, I forgot to include the 32-bit kernel in thi

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Zsombor
t kind of installation type did you use? (auto/install/expert) Regards, Zsombor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktiktf0ihod8byjnxbxg2ojqjrnauzqmg=-jv9...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Zsombor
official image (built by official di experts). Thanks again for the effort, Regards Zsombor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread Zsombor
dule included for 64bit. I started writing a changelog file to know what's happening in new releases. Unfortunately, I cannot test new features as qemu with this port/kernel/cputype doesnt work. Regards, Zsombor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-09 Thread Zsombor
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Gary wrote: > I tried this on the same G5 with mostly the same results. I've Bad news. I compile a custom kernel this weekend, setting CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS to 'y'. In the official one, it is turned off so no legacy /proc/scsi directory. I will pray for this to work

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-10 Thread Zsombor
etcard If you have time to test, I'm looking forward to it. Regards, Zsombor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikkdbeau6ejypmj

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Zsombor
o At http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/ , I removed the custom kernel and the ehea module from the di-kernel. So this release contains the official base image, the only change is the yaboot replace (1.3.13a1 -> 1.3.16) regards, Zsombor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@li

Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-14 Thread Zsombor
missing ehea module from 64-bit di-installer kernel and 32bit-kernel reboot are different issues. Unusable manual partitioning is due to simple-cdd's weakness rather than bug. br Zsombor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-17 Thread Zsombor
It is due to a symlink to a nonexistent file, but ybin is able to setup boot. On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > It seemed like an error, but it installed yaboot correctly! (see earlier > post). It gave me a warning that yaboot couldn't be installed but it > installed perfe