On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:21:26PM -0400, Miro Jurišić wrote: > Miro Jurišić wrote: > >Yeah, I was going to as soon as I figure out exactly which one of many > >different images that I failed with I should be using :-) I am burning > >the sid_d-i image as per Colin's suggestion and will report back soon. > > I burned the image at > <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/ > 20040622/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso>. After entering install-power4 > at the yaboot prompt, yaboot loads the kernel and the RAM disk, and > then the machine dies with an OF error. Specifically, it fails trying > to start the CPU at /cpus/PowerPC,G5 -- not too surprising, as my cpus > are at /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED] and /cpus/PowerPC,[EMAIL PROTECTED], > according to OF. I > assume this is why you said that I need to use an SMP kernel, but I see > no such kernel on that image.
The 2.4.25 kernel image builds in the archive don't include a power4 SMP kernel, or if they do they don't advertise it as such. Can you try booting with install-power4-2.6? The 2.6.6 kernel image builds in the archive do include an SMP kernel, which we currently aren't using. Is it safe to use this for all power4 systems? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
