On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 02:48:03PM +0000, Deinsti Suski wrote: > Hello Len > > 1; Yes, we are using the MBR Partition table > 2; the PreP partition is 8MB and has the Boot flag set to on > 3; Debian is running on bare-metal, no hypervisor involved > 3; Correct, the installer boots with no issues at all and it's only after > the reboot when try to boot the installation from the HDD that both > bootloaders just stall/fail > 4; We are using a 1GB USB Memory stick as the installation media > 5; we are using the Debian 10 SID NETINST for PPC64 dated 2020-05-30, the > reason we're not using the latest snapshot is because the latest one > (2020-10-13) fails with 'missing-firmware /dev/.udev missing firmware' and > the installation media fails to mount > > If you need any more information don't hesitate to ask
Well you are doing everything I remember doing (although at the time I was using powerpc not ppc64 but I doubt that matters), and I used a CD, not USB to boot. No idea if that makes any difference. Hopefully it isn't confused by which disk is sda vs sdb due to the usb stick. I had successful installs in the past (but probably 5 or 6 years ago now) on p520 (power6) and p710 (power7) hardware both booting from CD. -- Len Sorensen