Re: Bug#603536: Linux on POWER Bootable ISO
On 12/30/2010 02:24 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Milan Kupcevic (mi...@physics.harvard.edu): Unofficial Debian Install CD created with --iso-level 4 mkisofs option boots fine on both machines. Steve McIntyre applied your patch to debian-cd. Could you confirm whether that fixes this issue (by checking daily builds, I guess)? I booted YDL PowerStation with official weekly testing CD1 [1] built on December 20, 2010. Therefore, this issue is fixed in testing CD production environment. [1] .disk/info: Debian GNU/Linux testing Squeeze - Official Snapshot powerpc CD Binary-1 20101220-08:05 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Bug#603536: Linux on POWER Bootable ISO
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:24:54AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Milan Kupcevic (mi...@physics.harvard.edu): Official Debian PowerPC install iso images wont boot on my two machines because IBM OpenFirmware on IBM RS/6000 44P Model 170 and IBM SLOF firmware on YDL PowerStation are not able to read files from isofs. Unofficial Debian Install CD created with --iso-level 4 mkisofs option boots fine on both machines. Linux on POWER Bootable ISO HOWTO [1] instruction says: Steve McIntyre applied your patch to debian-cd. Could you confirm whether that fixes this issue (by checking daily builds, I guess)? The bug is not closed yet, but I suspect this is because the debian-cd package hasn't been uploaded yet, am I wrong, Steve? Yup, that's exactly it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back -- 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/20101230094631.gy9...@einval.com
Re: Bug#603536: Linux on POWER Bootable ISO
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:26:28AM -0500, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 12/30/2010 02:24 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Milan Kupcevic (mi...@physics.harvard.edu): Unofficial Debian Install CD created with --iso-level 4 mkisofs option boots fine on both machines. Steve McIntyre applied your patch to debian-cd. Could you confirm whether that fixes this issue (by checking daily builds, I guess)? I booted YDL PowerStation with official weekly testing CD1 [1] built on December 20, 2010. Therefore, this issue is fixed in testing CD production environment. Cool, thanks for confirming. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss -- 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/20101230094657.gz9...@einval.com
Re: Bug#603536: Linux on POWER Bootable ISO
Quoting Milan Kupcevic (mi...@physics.harvard.edu): Official Debian PowerPC install iso images wont boot on my two machines because IBM OpenFirmware on IBM RS/6000 44P Model 170 and IBM SLOF firmware on YDL PowerStation are not able to read files from isofs. Unofficial Debian Install CD created with --iso-level 4 mkisofs option boots fine on both machines. Linux on POWER Bootable ISO HOWTO [1] instruction says: Steve McIntyre applied your patch to debian-cd. Could you confirm whether that fixes this issue (by checking daily builds, I guess)? The bug is not closed yet, but I suspect this is because the debian-cd package hasn't been uploaded yet, am I wrong, Steve? This issue is listed as a blocker on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/ReleaseAnnounce, hence my question. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug#603536: Linux on POWER Bootable ISO
Official Debian PowerPC install iso images wont boot on my two machines because IBM OpenFirmware on IBM RS/6000 44P Model 170 and IBM SLOF firmware on YDL PowerStation are not able to read files from isofs. Unofficial Debian Install CD created with --iso-level 4 mkisofs option boots fine on both machines. Linux on POWER Bootable ISO HOWTO [1] instruction says: The mkisofs man page lists all the options that can be passed on the command line, here is a simple set of options that will be enough to produce a bootable CD. mkisofs -r -U -chrp-boot -o image.iso base_directory You should now have a bootable ISO image that you can boot on a Linux on POWER system. Other linux distributions targeting IBM POWER machines create their PowerPC install CD images using -U option. The -U option Allows 'Untranslated filenames, completely violating the iso9660 standards, so it is probably better to go for --iso-level 4 as it produces ISO-9660:1999 compliant CD/DVD images, and as far as I can see works fine on Macs and IBM machines. Could you, please, apply the patch attached to bug report #603536 to create proper bootable .iso for Power machines, and make sure Squeeze PowerPC iso images are produced with the same option. Thanks, Milan [1] http://penguinppc.org/ppc64/power-bootable-iso/ [Appendix] Here is how official Debian install CD files look from IBM OpenFirmware's point of view: 0 dir cdrom DIR 12-15-2010 09:11:19 . DIR 12-15-2010 09:11:19 .. DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:48 CSS 0 12-15-2010 09:11:19 DEBIAN DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:48 DISTS DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:47 DOC DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:49 ETC DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:50 FIRMWARE DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:49 INSTALL 46888 12-15-2010 09:11:19 MD5SUM.TXT DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:48 PICS DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:49 POOL DIR 12-15-2010 09:10:49 PPC 8992 12-15-2010 09:11:19 README.HTML 375 12-15-2010 09:10:49 README.SOURCE 5564 12-15-2010 09:11:19 README.TXT 141804 12-15-2010 01:56:06 README_MIRRORS.HTML 76266 12-15-2010 01:56:06 README_MIRRORS.TXT DIR 12-15-2010 09:11:19 _DISK ok Here is how they look on an unofficial Debian install CD created with --iso-level 4 mkisofs option: 0 dir cdrom DIR 12-11-2010 20:57:25 . DIR 12-11-2010 20:57:25 .. DIR 12-11-2010 20:57:25 .disk 8962 12-11-2010 20:57:25 README.html 141274 11-20-2010 08:52:23 README.mirrors.html 76044 11-20-2010 08:52:23 README.mirrors.txt 306 12-11-2010 20:55:38 README.source 5544 12-11-2010 20:57:25 README.txt DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:33 css 0 12-11-2010 20:57:25 debian DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:33 dists DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:32 doc DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:38 etc DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:49 firmware DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:38 install 48176 12-11-2010 20:57:25 md5sum.txt DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:33 pics DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:39 pool DIR 12-11-2010 20:55:38 ppc ok Here is how an Official IBM AIX install CD looks from the IBM OpenFirmware point of view: 0 dir cdrom DIR 09-23-2002 11:44:52 . DIR 09-23-2002 11:44:52 .. 42 09-23-2002 11:44:52 .Version DIR 09-23-2002 11:40:19 5100-03 16 09-23-2002 11:40:19 OSLEVEL DIR 09-23-2002 11:43:00 RPMS 10445 09-23-2002 11:40:19 bosinst.data 12788 09-23-2002 11:40:19 image.data DIR 09-23-2002 11:44:25 installp DIR 09-23-2002 11:40:20 ppc DIR 09-23-2002 11:40:22 root DIR 09-23-2002 11:41:16 usr ok signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
