Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface
-- From: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:24 PM To: 572...@bugs.debian.org Cc: PowerPC List Debian debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; CD List Debian debian...@lists.debian.org; l...@debian.org; Otavio Salvador ota...@debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Rick Thomas wrote: So how do we get this fixed? If it really is a problem on the buildd, who *can* fix it? Is there a list somewhere of who is responsible for which buildd? I've already provided that info a few times. For the centralized D-I buildds (which includes powerpc) Luk Claes and Otavio Salvador are the persons who set up the buildds and who are AFAIK the only people who currently have the access required to maintain the buildds. I have seen no mails from them on the d-boot list requesting help with that, so I can only assume they're still willing to maintain them (although the evidence seems to indicate otherwise). If it doesn't get fixed, there's not much point in claiming that Debian supports PowerPC architecture... Bullshit. I agree that it's a huge nuisance for testing and that the daily builds really should be available, but the alpha1 release works just fine (except for the known issues) and a next release will also not have this issue. For testing the current development status of the installer you could always build your own images. It's not that hard. Your point about not supporting powerpc is a gross exaggeration and to be honest I'm getting pretty tired of your repeating that any time *volunteers* don't jump quickly enough to your liking. So far I've also not seen that much actual help with arch-specific D-I development from the Debian powerpc community, despite repeated calls for help from our side. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003242125.01048.elen...@planet.nl AFAIK, the d-I powerpc images currently don't work. However, there are images for powerpc alpha which do work. The images that do not work are from before alpha1 was released. I had a similar problem with the pre alpha builds but my problem was the the network card couldn't be configured. I was not sure whether it couldn't find the drivers for the network card or not only knew that it would not configure the network card and that is where installation would come to a halt. This was fixed with the alpha1 builds. Unfortunately, I cannot help you with sid daily builds because the installation is unable to mount the cdrom driver once the installation starts. However maybe that has changed and will test a sid build and see if it can find the network drivers to install. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt117-ds194daf85661fd6236826e787...@phx.gbl
RE: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?
-Original Message- From: Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:07 AM To: thegame4121...@msn.com Cc: geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com; julianhernan...@gmail.com; fabian...@gmail.com; geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3? Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Norberto Feliberty thegame4121...@msn.com wrote: Thank you very much. If you are the peeson who is making this all possible can you notify us when the changes have been committed into the netboot and the cd and dvd images so that we can test to see that the cd drive and kernel issues have been fixed. Thanks. It is not only me. The Debian Installer Team is doing it. I've fixed the CD-ROM issue for next kernel update, while Frans has fixed the kernel detection, Rick, Geert and you has tested the images, adb (I don't know his name) has done a lot of tests to find what that problems before I started to work on that and also offered his ps3 to me to access to debug the segfaults and so on. So it is more a team work. But yes, I can ping you when the image is ready for testing. No problem ;-) -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt117-ds185426737791d47e7a81d87...@phx.gbl
RE: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?
-Original Message- From: Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:29 AM To: geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com Cc: julianhernan...@gmail.com; fabian...@gmail.com; geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; thegame4121...@msn.com Subject: Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3? Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com wrote: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com wrote: Can you get an lspci of a running system, and a dmesg, for us to check if it is a missing module? There's no (user-visible) PCI bus. All needed drivers are for the PS3 system bus type, and they should be loaded fine (if present) by udev. Perfect; do you know which module would be responsable for the CD/DVD device? ps3rom. I found the problem; I'm fixing it. However it won't be fixed for Alpha1, only when new kernel is added into installer. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br Thanks Otavio. After this issue all that is needed is getting the installer to install the kernel and have it create yaboot.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt117-ds117da1d1b9ea1efb4145b87...@phx.gbl
RE: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?
-Original Message- From: Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:54 PM To: thegame4121...@msn.com Cc: geert.uytterhoe...@sonycom.com; julianhernan...@gmail.com; fabian...@gmail.com; geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3? Hello, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Norberto Feliberty thegame4121...@msn.com wrote: Thanks Otavio. After this issue all that is needed is getting the installer to install the kernel and have it create yaboot.conf This has been fixed already. Probably will be fixed soon after Alpha1 is announced. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br Thank you very much. If you are the peeson who is making this all possible can you notify us when the changes have been committed into the netboot and the cd and dvd images so that we can test to see that the cd drive and kernel issues have been fixed. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt117-ds17045950f5cd2f77ff777d87...@phx.gbl
RE: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?
-Original Message- From: Fabiano Manoel de Andrade fabian...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:49 AM To: geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com Cc: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; thegame4121...@msn.com Subject: Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3? Hi. Em Ter, 2010-02-16 às 11:27 -0800, Geoff Levand escreveu: Hi, On 02/15/2010 09:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Norberto is having trouble getting Debian to install on his PS3. It's a bit out of my usual line, so any advice from somebody who has done it will be much appreciated! I just tested the current daily-build (08-Feb-2010 00:09) from here: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/powerpc/daily/powerpc64/netboot/ The installer fails on network config. Good news. I just tested the current testing netboot build (12-Feb-2010) from: http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc64/netboot/ The installation was sucesfull without any modification. The ps3 net card was recognized and configured. The only thing is the message of the installer that no suitable kernel image package can be found, and that no bootloader was installed. I just install manually the kernel and configure the yaboot.conf. Next I will try the squeeze_di_alpha1. Regards. Fabiano. Thank you very much. I will try both of these. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt117-ds2d8314d9668de4c4e426087...@phx.gbl
RE: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3?
Norberto Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:37:53 -0200 Subject: Re: Has anybody recently done a Debian install on a playstation-3? From: ota...@ossystems.com.br To: fabian...@gmail.com CC: geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; thegame4121...@msn.com Hello Fabiano, On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Fabiano Manoel de Andrade fabian...@gmail.com wrote: The installation was sucesfull without any modification. The ps3 net card was recognized and configured. The only thing is the message of the installer that no suitable kernel image package can be found, and that no bootloader was installed. I just install manually the kernel and configure the yaboot.conf. Next I will try the squeeze_di_alpha1. The squeeze_di_alpha1 uses this installer; so it will give you same result. We need people to investigate the kernel issue for next release; if you're up to, please contact me. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/be7a9f3d1002171037x3854853bo9021dc8391ed8...@mail.gmail.com Hello, I have successfully installed Debian Squeeze on my ps3 using the build from feb 12 using a microsdhc card. The only problem I encountered was that it could not find the correct kernel to install therefore a kernel had to be manually installed after the installation completed. The message was something to the effect of no installable kernels were found in the defined sources. If there are enough interested people who use Debian on the ps3, then maybe we can have this fixed. Thank you to everyone who has helped progress Debian on the ps3 to where it is today. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/
RE: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]
-Original Message- From: Geoff Levand geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:30 PM To: rbtho...@pobox.com Cc: thegame4121...@msn.com; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults] On 02/15/2010 02:41 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Rick Rick on what machine did you test on. I tested on my playstation 3 about 3 or 4 days ago and the installation failed at configuring network with installation step failed i tested the daily netboot image. Thanks. I used an Apple PowerMac deskside tower G4 machine. Can you supply the relevant part of the syslog from a failed attempt on the PS3? More details might help us to figure out what's failing there. I'm guessing the PS3 has a network interface that needs some firmware that isn't being supplied. The installer has provision for such cases (you can put the firmware on a USB stick and load it from there), but I've never used them. Maybe somebody else on the list knows more details? The PS3 needs no firmware. It has its own network driver ps3_gelic that must either be built into the kernel or available in the installer's initrd image. It could be a problem with NetworkManager, or whatever is used by the installer, not recognising the PS3's Ether device. -Geoff It used to work. Something had to have changed with the installer because the ps3 debian install how to document used to work now it fails at configuring network with installation step failed. Thanks. Going to try and investigate this further. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt117-ds442e64d40be1d6d55920387...@phx.gbl
RE: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]
-Original Message-
From: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 3:38 AM
To: 562...@bugs.debian.org
Cc: thegame4121...@msn.com; debian-boot@lists.debian.org;
debian-powe...@lists.debian.org
Subject: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575:
installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation
faults]
At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the PowerPC
daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/{squeeze,sid}_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
This build finished at Mon Feb 15 04:15:05 UTC 2010. (for Sid d-i)
and
This build finished at Mon Feb 15 04:17:52 UTC 2010. (for Squeeze)
The Sid d-i failed with seg-faults. The Squeeze d-i did *not*.
In fact, the squeeze d-i installer completed a normal installation and
booted just fine.
So... What do we do now?
Rick
Rick on what machine did you test on. I tested on my playstation 3 about 3 or 4
days ago and the installation failed at configuring network with installation
step failed i tested the daily netboot image. Thanks.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt117-ds21b8d86e33fb83953fbb2987...@phx.gbl
RE: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]
-Original Message-
From: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 5:41 PM
To: thegame4121...@msn.com
Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re: Bug#562575:
installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation
faults]
On Feb 15, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 3:38 AM
To: 562...@bugs.debian.org
Cc: thegame4121...@msn.com; debian-boot@lists.debian.org;
debian-powe...@lists.debian.org
Subject: Bug present in Sid D-i, but not in Squeeze d-i [Re:
Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer
loops with Segmentation faults]
At Norberto's suggestion I did a side-by side comparison of the
PowerPC
daily buisnesscard installer from the Sid d-i and the Squeeze d-i at
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/{squeeze,sid}_d-i/
arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
This build finished at Mon Feb 15 04:15:05 UTC 2010. (for Sid d-i)
and
This build finished at Mon Feb 15 04:17:52 UTC 2010. (for Squeeze)
The Sid d-i failed with seg-faults. The Squeeze d-i did *not*.
In fact, the squeeze d-i installer completed a normal installation and
booted just fine.
So... What do we do now?
Rick
Rick on what machine did you test on. I tested on my playstation 3
about 3 or 4 days ago and the installation failed at configuring
network with installation step failed i tested the daily netboot
image. Thanks.
I used an Apple PowerMac deskside tower G4 machine.
Can you supply the relevant part of the syslog from a failed attempt
on the PS3? More details might help us to figure out what's failing
there. I'm guessing the PS3 has a network interface that needs some
firmware that isn't being supplied. The installer has provision for
such cases (you can put the firmware on a USB stick and load it from
there), but I've never used them. Maybe somebody else on the list
knows more details?
This is not related to bug#562575, so I've taken it off the CC list.
Rick
It used to have the drivers for the ps3 network card and it would install but
now it just fails at configuring network. I dont know how to provide extra info
from the logs or how to access them. Thanks.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/snt117-ds20a1c97483b67930bfd9ae87...@phx.gbl
RE: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]
-Original Message- From: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 8:18 AM To: 562...@bugs.debian.org Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults] On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Jan 31, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: Hello, On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Norberto Feliberty thegame4121...@msn.com wrote: That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I see that the latest daily squeeze build has stopped on Jan 11. This is also fixed now. Wonderful! Please let us know when it appears in an ISO we can test! Rick Is the fix supposed to be in the sid-di businesscard ISO yet? I just downloaded from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ which says: This build finished at Fri Feb 12 04:25:17 UTC 2010. The bug was still present when I tried an install from that image. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Tried squeeze daily build from feb 11 and seg fault message ia gone installation starts but fails at configuring network with installation step failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]
-- From: Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 1:49 PM To: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com Cc: 562...@bugs.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; PowerPC List Debian debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults] Hello, On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: I tested it today with the sid-di daily PowerPC buisnesscard dated Thu Jan 28 22:35:10 UTC 2010 It still segfaults at startup. I've built cdebconf in the development machine and I failed to reproduce this failure. We need someone with direct access to a machine to test it and debug to check where it segfaults. Anyone want to help? -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Hello, I am currently unable to test but when I did test this the segfault occurred before the installer would even start. This was done on a playstation 3 system witch contains a cell broadband engine processor. This test was done between a week or two ago. Anyone else that can provide more information please jump in here so we can have a working debian squeeze on the powerpc platform. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]
-- From: Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:15 PM To: Norberto Feliberty thegame4121...@msn.com Cc: Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com; 562...@bugs.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; PowerPC List Debian debian-powe...@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults] Hello, Good news :-) On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Otavio Salvador ota...@ossystems.com.br wrote: I'll resume what I've gotten from my debugging session today. I got it working and I've asked for a binNMU for cdebconf to be queued. It looks to fix it, at least it did for my test here. Let's see how it goes. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br That's great to hear Hopefully this will get things rolling again since I see that the latest daily squeeze build has stopped on Jan 11. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]]
Norberto Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:07:22 -0800 Subject: Re: Is Debian on PowerPC dead? [Re: Bug still present [Re: Bug#562575: installation-reports: Buisnesscard PowerPC installer loops with Segmentation faults]] From: cymraeg...@gmail.com To: rbtho...@pobox.com CC: 562...@bugs.debian.org; 564...@bugs.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: This bug is still present in the Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010 businesscard CD downloaded from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ So far as I can tell, this bug has not been looked at by the debian-installer folks. Is PowerPC simply so unimportant that resources cannot be spared to even *look* at a problem that renders the installer unusable on that hardware? From my experience a) there is little point to the business card image. The netinstall is the good option. b) daily builds are not necessarily supposed to work they are just for developers to share and try out ideas with. c) try the weekly builds, d) try testing, do a basic install and add unstable items with testing preferred. Unstable is not guaranteed to do anything except that (do I have this exactly right) certain very severe bugs cause it to reject moving to testing, after a short period of time the item either moves to testing or to experimental or nothing (in that particular version). I am no DD I have just listened to the lists for a few years. Brian I can confirm that this is bug is also present on the playstation 3. Starting the installation gives the looping segmentation fault message. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/
Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3
Norberto Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:50:24 -0800 From: geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com To: geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com CC: w...@uter.be; thegame4121...@msn.com; w...@altlinux.org; 514...@bugs.debian.org; t...@cyrius.com; cbe-oss-...@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3 On 12/02/2009 03:25 PM, Levand, Geoffrey wrote: On 05/28/2009 09:39 AM, Levand, Geoffrey wrote: On 05/01/2009 03:18 PM, Geoff Levand wrote: I tried today's build (20090430) and the 'CD-ROM driver not found' problem is fixed: http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20090430-22:00/powerpc64/netboot/ I was able to finish the install, but still got the same other known problems: (1) At kernel install: 'No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources' 'base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavor' (2) At boot loader install: 'No boot loader has been installed' 'GRUB not yet usable on PowerPC systems' It should create a /etc/yaboot.conf on the same partition that the kernel was installed to, but nothing else is needed. The petitboot bootloader can read from vfat, ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems. Hi, Could someone familiar with D-I internals give a brief summary of what needs to be done to fix these two problems. Thanks. I tried the sid installer build today: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ but there were no ps3 drivers in the image. What needs to be done to get those drivers included? After some searching, I found this commit that seems it should add the drivers: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/trunk/packages/kernel/linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6/modules/powerpc-powerpc64/scsi-extra-modules?r1=48552r2=57888 That change doesn't seem to be in the daily build I tested though. Can anyone explain? -Goeff hello, while the changes may have not been committed to cd or dvd media, the changes are in place for the netboot images. I tried the netboot image anywhere between the 10th and 20th of november. I can't recall the exact date but It was a squeeze build. I had no problems with the installation execpt that it couldn't install or find the correct kernel to install. As a result, no kernel was installed. It should install the linux-2.6-powerpc64 kernel package. The installation completes successfully otherwise. After this, I have to revert to using kboot because I have to enter custom command to boot the newly installed system from usb stick. Then I can proceed to install the linux-image-2.6-powerpc64 package and create yaboot.conf to boot the system normally. I downloaded the dvd powerpc weekly build from nov 30 and see how that goes. The strangest thing about debian is that once it is installed, it runs very well better than ubuntu on the ps3 in my opinion. The thing is that ubuntu has support for the ps3 while debian doesn't officialy support installation on the ps3. _ Chat with Messenger straight from your Hotmail inbox. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_4:092009
Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3
Norberto Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:35:35 -0800 From: geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com To: thegame4121...@msn.com CC: w...@uter.be; w...@altlinux.org; 514...@bugs.debian.org; t...@cyrius.com; cbe-oss-...@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3 On 12/02/2009 05:32 PM, Norberto Feliberty wrote: hello, while the changes may have not been committed to cd or dvd media, the changes are in place for the netboot images. I tried the netboot image anywhere between the 10th and 20th of november. I can't recall the exact date but It was a squeeze build. Could you please let me know the URL where you downloaded the netboot image? -Geoff Sure here's the link these images seem to be made on a daily basis. http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/powerpc/daily/powerpc64/netboot/ _ Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/videos-tours.aspx?h=7secslideid=1media=aero-shake-7secondlistid=1stop=1ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_7secdemo:122009
Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3
Also the network configuration fails if you try to configure it using the wireless interface. I also tested the build from 04-30-09 and like yourself I too ran into the problem with the installer not knowing which kerenl to install even though at the beginning of the installer when it was retrieving components, it was retrieving the 2.6.29 powerpc64 kernel. I though I ran into this issue because i opted to use the netinstall from 04-30 instead of the mini.iso from 04-27 but now I am not so sure. Norberto Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:18:58 -0700 From: geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com To: w...@uter.be CC: thegame4121...@msn.com; w...@altlinux.org; 514...@bugs.debian.org; t...@cyrius.com; cbe-oss-...@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3 On 04/23/2009 01:54 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:34:34PM -0400, thegame4121...@msn.com wrote: This is great news. Is this only for the testing version of Debian codename squeeze or will this fix also be included in the next point release of Debian Lenny? It will not be included in the next point release. However, it might be included as part of the planned 'lenny and a half' release where a new kernel and installer will be provided, to support new hardware. Before that can happen, however, testing will be necessary. You can find the daily builds here: http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/ Hi, I tried today's build (20090430) and the 'CD-ROM driver not found' problem is fixed: http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20090430-22:00/powerpc64/netboot/ I was able to finish the install, but still got the same other known problems: (1) At kernel install: 'No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources' 'base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavor' It should install the 64 bit powerpc kernel. (2) At boot loader install: 'No boot loader has been installed' 'GRUB not yet usable on PowerPC systems' It should create a /etc/yaboot.conf on the same partition that the kernel was installed to, but nothing else is needed. The petitboot bootloader can read from vfat, ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems. -Geoff _ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage1_052009
Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3
Norberto Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:54:59 +0200 From: w...@uter.be To: thegame4121...@msn.com CC: w...@altlinux.org; geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; 514...@bugs.debian.org; t...@cyrius.com; cbe-oss-...@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3 On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:34:34PM -0400, thegame4121...@msn.com wrote: This is great news. Is this only for the testing version of Debian codename squeeze or will this fix also be included in the next point release of Debian Lenny? It will not be included in the next point release. However, it might be included as part of the planned 'lenny and a half' release where a new kernel and installer will be provided, to support new hardware. Before that can happen, however, testing will be necessary. You can find the daily builds here: http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/ -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html Hello I have downloaded the daily build from 04-30-09 and I let it get as far as setting up the partitions. I am happy to see that the installer now detects the netwrok card and the hard drive. I would like to continue with the installation to see if I will get a successful debian install using the build but I do not want to loose my current installation. Is it in any way posible to test other installation while at the same time keeping my current installation? Thanks. _ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get e-mail storage that grows with you. http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Storage2_042009
Bug#514055: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3
Norberto Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:54:59 +0200 From: w...@uter.be To: thegame4121...@msn.com CC: w...@altlinux.org; geoffrey.lev...@am.sony.com; 514...@bugs.debian.org; t...@cyrius.com; cbe-oss-...@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3 On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:34:34PM -0400, thegame4121...@msn.com wrote: This is great news. Is this only for the testing version of Debian codename squeeze or will this fix also be included in the next point release of Debian Lenny? It will not be included in the next point release. However, it might be included as part of the planned 'lenny and a half' release where a new kernel and installer will be provided, to support new hardware. Before that can happen, however, testing will be necessary. You can find the daily builds here: http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/ -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html Hi thanks for the information. I have looked through the daily builds and it seems the latest build I have come across was the one from April 20th with a folder for today April 23rd but no images for today? Is this correct or am I not looking in the right place? Thanks. _ Windows Live™ SkyDrive™: Get 25 GB of free online storage. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_042009
Please add support for the Playstation 3 Platform
To whom it may concern, Hi, my name is Norberto Feliberty. I own a playstation 3 which has a powerpc based processor. As you may know, it is capable of running linux distrobutions and therefore can be used as a personal computer. I have tried several different linux distros all with various degree of success. I am looking for a solid well supported easy to use linux distro for the playstation 3 and I think debain can make a fine distro for the playstation 3. Being that debain already supports the powerpc agriculture, I hope that this won't be too difficult to implement. I have tried and successfully installed a net install image for pc and found it very easy and straight forward. A debain text installer for the playstation 3 exactly like the on in the net install image for pc would be an exellent option for those who do not have an HDTV because an SDTV only outputs in 480i. I look forward to hearing from you with any information you may have regarding any plans to make debain support for the playstation 3 available. [http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/betathanks/download/images/download_2.jpg] Norberto _ Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join
Re: Please add support for the Playstation 3 Platform
Hi, sorry about the way I wrote my post. I am a regular user requesting that support for the playstation 3 be included for debain. I have used debain for pc and found it easy to install and was hoping that someone could make it available for the playstation 3. I would gladly impliment support for the playstation 3 but I do not know how that would be done. IS there someone specific that I can contact to put in a request for ps3 support for debain? Thanks. [http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/betathanks/download/images/download_2.jpg] Norberto _ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008
