Re: disk labels and partitions for IBM Power to boot

2011-03-02 Thread Super Bisquit
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Adrian Zaugg adrian.za...@ivt.baug.ethz.chwrote: Hello I have partitioned my boot disk in a IBM Power 740 Express with cfdisk (msdos disk labels) to have a PReP bootpartition first and a Linux partition behind it. The system doesn't recognize this disk as a

Re: disk labels and partitions for IBM Power to boot

2011-03-02 Thread Xavier Grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sorry but I'm running some Power6 hardware and I have a different experience. Here is the results of the a few commands : root@alopex-lagopus:~# sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 70006 cylinders, 128 heads, 32 sectors/track Units = cylinders of

Fw: debian-installer: fails to install bootloader on ibm power5 lpar

2011-03-02 Thread folkert
Hi, After installing debian 6.0.0 in a ibm power5 lpar (power platform; powerpc cd), the installer fails to install a bootloader (yaboot and prep both fail). The system won't come up then of course. Folkert van Heusden -- Nagios user? Check out CoffeeSaint - the versatile Nagios status

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Klose
On 02.03.2011 07:36, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On 2 March 2011 03:34, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: I'll make gcc-4.5 the default for (at least some) architectures within the next two weeks before more transitions start. GCC-4.5 is already used as the default compiler for

Re: disk labels and partitions for IBM Power to boot

2011-03-02 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 03/01/2011 08:59 AM, Adrian Zaugg wrote: Hello I have partitioned my boot disk in a IBM Power 740 Express with cfdisk (msdos disk labels) to have a PReP bootpartition first and a Linux partition behind it. The system doesn't recognize this disk as a boot disk, although I have activated

Re: disk labels and partitions for IBM Power to boot

2011-03-02 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:59:00PM +0100, Adrian Zaugg wrote: Hello I have partitioned my boot disk in a IBM Power 740 Express with cfdisk (msdos disk labels) to have a PReP bootpartition first and a Linux partition behind it. The system doesn't recognize this disk as a boot disk, although

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Guy
On 2 March 2011 02:34, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote:   armel (although optimized for a different processor) Hi For which processor (/architecture) is it optimized, and do you mean optimized-for, or only-runs-on? I ask in case this would mean dumping all the armv4t systems that are using

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Klose
On 02.03.2011 17:54, Martin Guy wrote: On 2 March 2011 02:34, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: armel (although optimized for a different processor) Hi For which processor (/architecture) is it optimized, and do you mean optimized-for, or only-runs-on? I ask in case this would mean