On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 09:27:40PM -0200, Rafael Espíndola wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:51:11 +0100, Andreas Jochens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have PowerMac G5 1800 MHz with a single processor. > > > > I actually started my ppc64 porting efforts because I was > > not able to install the 32 bit Debian powerpc port on that > > machine using the Debian installer from sarge or sid. > > None of the Debian installer kernels even booted for me. > > So I first installed the Gentoo ppc64 port and used > > the Gentoo toolchain to compile the necessary Debian packages for a > > full Debian ppc64 chroot environment. After that I used the Debian > > chroot environment to recompile as many Debian source packages for ppc64 as > > possible with a simple but efficient autobuilding script. Of course I > My case is very similar. In my work there is IBM p615 and a b50. I > love debian and tried to install it on both. The b50 was simple, just > recreate the iso > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=260433). > Unfortunately the p615 does not boot with 32bits kernels and I didn't > thought that it was possible to add a 64bits in time for sarge. So I > (with the help of some gentoo fans) installed gentoo and started > playing with the possibility of building debian on top of it.
No idea about the p615, but we were able to boot a power3 box into d-i, by using a 64bit kernel with all modules builtin, and the power3 d-i initrd. Some work about this was found here : http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64 The kernel was built using a ppc64 cross compiler though. Friendly, Sven Luther