Package: debian-installer Severity: grave Tags: experimental patch Justification: renders package unusable
Problem on Installation for Debian on IBM Risc/6000 Hardware is IBM RS/6000 B50 (model 7046), 128 MB Ram, 9GB SCSI HDD Architecture is CHRP. ps/2 keyboard+mouse S3 pci video. While trying to install debian on an ibm rs6000 B50 (i have 4 i want to use!) i want to report the problems i have. First, i downloaded the sarge boot image (speaking of the 'netboot' minicd iso image) and i cannot boot at all. with the hard disk completely wiped the system keeps resetting himself. evidently it cannot boot form any boot device and remains stuck in the boot process polling devices (floppy, cd, hd, network) for a boot image. Following some instructions found via google, the debian-boot ml and others, i downloaded the current netboot and tried to install from it. Getting debian installer on 10 Feb 2006, 18:14 CET Copy file from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso Burned on cd/rw media the B50 server cannot boot. In order to go to the yaboot prompt, i have done this procedure: (workstation with debian/testing on Athlon64, all packages at current revisions) mounted the netinst to my workstation's /mnt/disk via "mount /space/debian/debianiso/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst-20060210.iso /mnt/disk -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0" copied contents to hard disk via "rm -fr disk ; rm -fr /space/debian/ppcboot-20060210 ; rsync -a /mnt/disk /space/debian ; mv /space/debian/disk /space/debian/ppcboot-20060210" unmounted cdrom image via "umount /mnt/disk" cd /space/debian/ppcboot-20060210/ppc Modified the bootinfo.txt file (see patch attached) cd /space/debian created new image by "rm -f /space/debian/ppcboot-20060210 ; mkisofs -chrp-boot -U -r -hide-rr-moved -V "Debian testing ppc Bin-1" -sysid "LINUX" -o /space/debian/ppc-testing-20060210.iso /space/debian/ppcboot-20060210" Burned on cd/rw media Now disc boot to yaboot ok. It seems to me that the B50 openfirmware does not recognize the bootinfo.txt file as valid if it doesn't contain the icon description along with the other tags. hope this helps. Andrea -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12ab1 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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