Re: problem installing debian-506-powerpc
Ah, there was no problem with the installer neither boot/kernel parameters. The reason is unsufficient memory for the ramdisk. After cleanup: [enter OF prompt] dev nvram wipe-nvram installer started happily. Thanks for the effort, regards Zsombor On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:04:27PM +0200, Zsombor wrote: It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I give a chance with grub2 squeeze. Thank you for the advise! Hmm, at least the daily build installer I used about 2 months ago booted. I had to do 'install64 video=ofonly'. Without the ofonly option it won't boot for me. yaboot on the install CD is fine, but yaboot for disk access is hopeless (The debian package hasn't been updated in years, and the fixed version that would work for these machines isn't in Debian as a result). Given yaboot doesn't do software raid, modern linux filesystems or anything else, grub2 is highly preferable even if it takes some manual work to install. -- Len Sorensen -- 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/aanlktint0knnltf+vank24t8bqd6h0�ljd=mxqc...@mail.gmail.com
problem installing debian-506-powerpc
Hello, I have a 64-bit p550 power where I tried to install Debian using image http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso About a year ago I had successfully installed Debian64 but booting with this image it says: [0.510170] Ramdisk: compressed image found at block0 [0.722845] Ramdisk: incomplete write (-28!=32768) 10485760 [0.771772] Ramdisk: ran out of compressed data [0.771782] Ramdisk: invalid compressed format (err=1) [0.791592] List all partitions: [0.791603] No filesystem could mount root, tried: [0.791614] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unkown block(0,1) [0.791631] Rebooting in 180 seconds I gave a try with increasing ramdisk_size but Kernel panic still appears. Googling this error, XFS may be the problem but as far as I noticed it is resolved in Lenny. Can you please help with some advise? Thank you in advance, Zsombor -- 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/aanlktimtasvgg-axdrtsau=47dunpd8vnls-phged...@mail.gmail.com
Re: problem installing debian-506-powerpc
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:49:03AM +0200, Zsombor wrote: I have a 64-bit p550 power where I tried to install Debian using image http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso About a year ago I had successfully installed Debian64 but booting with this image it says: [0.510170] Ramdisk: compressed image found at block0 [0.722845] Ramdisk: incomplete write (-28!=32768) 10485760 [0.771772] Ramdisk: ran out of compressed data [0.771782] Ramdisk: invalid compressed format (err=1) [0.791592] List all partitions: [0.791603] No filesystem could mount root, tried: [0.791614] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unkown block(0,1) [0.791631] Rebooting in 180 seconds I gave a try with increasing ramdisk_size but Kernel panic still appears. Googling this error, XFS may be the problem but as far as I noticed it is resolved in Lenny. Can you please help with some advise? Is this what happens after the install on first boot? I know yaboot certainly didn't work for me when I installed recently on a p520 (power6+ based) machine. I am now running grub2 (with some manual tweaking needed for the install) which works great. I am running squeeze now (I can't remember why lenny didn't work). -- Len Sorensen -- 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/20100913143043.gs2...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Re: problem installing debian-506-powerpc
Hello Len, It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I give a chance with grub2 squeeze. Thank you for the advise! Regards, Zsombor On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:49:03AM +0200, Zsombor wrote: I have a 64-bit p550 power where I tried to install Debian using image http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.6/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-506-powerpc-CD-1.iso About a year ago I had successfully installed Debian64 but booting with this image it says: [0.510170] Ramdisk: compressed image found at block0 [0.722845] Ramdisk: incomplete write (-28!=32768) 10485760 [0.771772] Ramdisk: ran out of compressed data [0.771782] Ramdisk: invalid compressed format (err=1) [0.791592] List all partitions: [0.791603] No filesystem could mount root, tried: [0.791614] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unkown block(0,1) [0.791631] Rebooting in 180 seconds I gave a try with increasing ramdisk_size but Kernel panic still appears. Googling this error, XFS may be the problem but as far as I noticed it is resolved in Lenny. Can you please help with some advise? Is this what happens after the install on first boot? I know yaboot certainly didn't work for me when I installed recently on a p520 (power6+ based) machine. I am now running grub2 (with some manual tweaking needed for the install) which works great. I am running squeeze now (I can't remember why lenny didn't work). -- Len Sorensen -- 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/aanlkti=ub4c+urb-rti21vuv1c84vjrv7nnkv2sq8...@mail.gmail.com
Re: problem installing debian-506-powerpc
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:04:27PM +0200, Zsombor wrote: It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I give a chance with grub2 squeeze. Thank you for the advise! Hmm, at least the daily build installer I used about 2 months ago booted. I had to do 'install64 video=ofonly'. Without the ofonly option it won't boot for me. yaboot on the install CD is fine, but yaboot for disk access is hopeless (The debian package hasn't been updated in years, and the fixed version that would work for these machines isn't in Debian as a result). Given yaboot doesn't do software raid, modern linux filesystems or anything else, grub2 is highly preferable even if it takes some manual work to install. -- Len Sorensen -- 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/20100913163415.gt2...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
