Finally i get system booted.
I already downloaded Fedora 12 DVD latest build, but decided to try
harder with Debian.
Things i learned:
1) for some reason passing video=ofonly works never for first time, but
mostly for second boot try.
2) here you can download daily builds:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
<http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/>
3) there is strange thing (timeout wrong) with SID latest DVD build, you
have to press [TAB] before ir shows boot: prompt
4) rescue64 target does not work as expected from latest daily-build.iso
5) if you select Power6 mode on Power7 LPAR, then installer detects
64-bit kernel much better :)
6) debian installer generates wrong yaboot.conf, device= and partition=
must be commented out to boot.
7) yabootconfig also does not generate working config. but much better
than installer.
8) i decided that UUID is evil, and KISS (keep it simple stupid) works.
changed all UUIDs to boot=/dev/sda1, root=/dev/sda2, also removed UUIDs
from /etc/fstab
9) hard disk booting also fails for first time, even with
append="video=ofonly" for first time
10) thanks for help
Gasha
On 07/27/2011 07:39 PM, David Ricar wrote:
On 07/27/2011 02:11 PM, Gasha wrote:
Well, it is not so easy...
64-bit kernel loads, but it restarts.
For me it looks like loading of initrd stops at the same place, as if
there is no "video=ofonly" parameter specified.
"Calling ibm,client-architecture-support..."
Plan B was to try latest testing/wheezy,
however latest build is unsuccessful,
and ISO from 2011-07-18 has bzip bug:#633782
<mailto:633...@bugs.debian.org>
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633782)
Any place to download other/older ISO images?
I'll try again experiments later...
I found this mirror, it should probably be hosted elsewhere too. I'd
install the most recent possible and try to debootstrap newest system,
or try upgrade. One of these ways should do the job.
I have etch upgraded to lenny 64bit debian ppc instalation on IBM
JS20, which worked well. I will have to uprgade it soon :)
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/
Cheers
David