Hi John. Thanks a lot for these images for alpha, I will be trying them soon probably, as I was unlucky with some previous ones. :)
Thanks. 2017-09-10 21:35 GMT+02:00 Anatoly Pugachev <mator...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Christoph Biedl > <debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de> wrote: > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote... > > > >> Please test and report back on the individual architecture > >> mailing lists > > > > So far, the ride for ppc64 has been *extremely* painful. This is not > > necessarly due to your efforts, but it feels a lot like nobody ever has > > tried to set up Debian on a G5 using netboot. > > > > So far (might be incomplete, and I'm both tired and fairly upset): > > > > * Any reasonable documentation on this anywhere? No about how to set up > > DHCP/TFTP server, I've done this many time. But what about which files > > are needed, and how to provide a netboot-adjusted yaboot.conf, and > > mostly: How to make yaboot make using it? > > > > * The OF bootloader needs two rounds to load yaboot. > > > > * yaboot should either get a decent on-line help or see bitrot. > > > > * yaboot's "conf /path/to/config" command, when initially using netboot, > > happiliy ignores the file name but retrieves 01-xx-yy-xx-yy-xx-yy > > using TFTP instead. > > > > * After a lot of trickery, the installer's vmlinux now gets loaded. At a > > whopping 6 kbyte/sec (yes: six kilobytes). Just to remind you, kernel > > and initrd take some 35 megabytes, and the G5 has already turned to > > airplane mode. My neighbors will love me. > > > > This isn't getting anywhere useful soon. > > I was able to install netboot sparc64 ldom (but not latest sid version > , which is too big to load by OBP. There's also #645657 debian bug, > but somehow it got closed). > > Also, installed ppc64 LPAR, failed to install yaboot and using grub2 > on Power8 server, but that installation wasn't netboot, but usual > iso/cdrom install. > > I could probably try to install test ppc64 lpar with netboot just to > check how it will go, but i need to know where do i get netboot image, > since https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/ does not have netboot > images. > > Thanks > > -- Witold Baryluk My PGP keys for 2017-02-17 - 2019-02-17: 5B8C 48CB 8B2F CF53 CA55 0995 16D9 6FA2 20A8 F130 https://functor.xyz/pgp/witold.baryluk-gmail.gpg.asc https://keys.mailvelope.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x16D96FA220A8F130
