forgot reply all... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Aug 7, 2013 10:40 PM Subject: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk To: "Michael Felt" <mamf...@gmail.com> Cc: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:44:01AM +0800, Michael Felt wrote: > Last march I started a thread - that with help - resolved the problem of > installing from > debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - and installed on a p505. downloading the > new yaboot as part of the install (thanks to Lennart Sorensen for the > hints/instructions that got me going) and I could install and boot! > > However, today I tried the debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso and this is > not successful - "out of the box". > > 1) entering "install" at the boot prompt brought me right back to the boot > prompt, just pressing enter worked much better. > > 2) show stopper for an install on IBM POWER (p505) using vscsi for hdisk0. > And again the "winner" is yaboot. > > ┌────────────────┤ [!!] Install yaboot on a hard disk ├─────────────────┐ > ┌│ │ > ││ No bootstrap partition found │ > ││ No hard disks were found which have an "Apple_Bootstrap" partition. │ > ││ You must create an 819200-byte partition with type "Apple_Bootstrap". │ > ││ │ > ││ <Go Back> <Continue> │ > └│ │ > └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ > > I had chosen the option "whole disk" - all in one - recommended for new, > and it created two partitions only (#2 ext4, and #5 swap). > > Is my assumption correct that I will need to use manual and create an > additional partition named "Apple_Bootstrap" _(for now at least) - and if > so, is there a preferred disk partition # to be used? > > Thanks for the feedback. > > p.s. a pointer to the bugs site is also welcome and I'll report and feed > the bug report. I don't think your IBM box needs an Apple_Bootstrap partition, but I might be remembering wrong given after trying to deal with yaboot, I switched to grub and had enough email exchanges with the grub develoeprs to get grub2 working on the IBM boxes with software RAID. I really like that setup much better. We currently have both a p520 and a p710 booting of software raid with grub2. -- Len Sorensen