Re: Q: Install of Etch on a RS/6000 B80

2006-08-02 Thread AlexB
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:10:11 +0200, Torsten Zirzlaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. AlexB schrieb: On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:40:06 +0200, Torsten Zirzlaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I had same issue when I tried to partition hard disk manually before installation (to have system installed

Re: Q: Install of Etch on a RS/6000 B80

2006-07-31 Thread AlexB
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:40:06 +0200, Torsten Zirzlaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have serious problems installing Etch on a RS/6000 B80 (I presume). The install with the net-install image boots fine and the ppc64 kernel works fine during install. But when I'm finished with the install and

Installing Debian unstable to IBM pSeries LPAR - success

2006-07-24 Thread AlexB
Good day everyone, just managed to install Debian unstable to an IBM p570 LPAR. Generally installation went OK, although Debian installer complained about inability to finish installation of uw-imapd at the end; also installer complained about inability to install linux kernel properly, but

Re: booting the install on the H50

2006-07-20 Thread AlexB
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vi /tmp/deb/etc/yaboot.conf then: mkdir /tmp/deb/ppc and save file, attached to this message as /tmp/deb/ppc/bootinfo.txt this file is needed by IBM Open Firmware to find yaboot boot loader automagically. now,

Re: booting the install on the H50

2006-07-18 Thread AlexB
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:20:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:23:34PM +0300, AlexB wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:34:21PM +0300, AlexB wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RS6000 machines can boot off floppy (at least

Re: booting the install on the H50

2006-07-17 Thread AlexB
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My H50 vendor wants to ensure that the unit will boot the Debian 3.1 install before he ships the unit. He says he can't get it to and suspects he is not making the CD correctly since his running systems are windows. In reading

Re: booting the install on the H50 - BOOTINFO.TXT (0/1)

2006-07-17 Thread AlexB
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:34:21 +0300, AlexB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My H50 vendor wants to ensure that the unit will boot the Debian 3.1 install before he ships the unit. He says he can't get it to and suspects he is not making

Re: booting the install on the H50

2006-07-17 Thread AlexB
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:34:21 +0300, AlexB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My H50 vendor wants to ensure that the unit will boot the Debian 3.1 install before he ships the unit. He says he can't get it to and suspects he is not making

Re: booting the install on the H50

2006-07-17 Thread AlexB
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:10:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:34:21PM +0300, AlexB wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:20:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reading the Installation manual for both 3.0 and 3.1 it says that Currently, the only PowerPC subarchitectures

Re: IBM 7026-H50 problems?

2006-07-10 Thread AlexB
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:50:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been wanting to switch to the PowerPC architecture to keep the excellent reliability I've had from my now 15 year old IBM server (486). The best deal I have found for $750 CDN is a 7026-H50 in an S00 rack. I think I've

Re: bootloader for RS6000 H50

2006-07-10 Thread AlexB
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:40:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the reply about the H50 vs the F50. Its good to have confirmation; I had verified with the vendor that the parts are interchangeabe and figured it would work. I'm a little confused on the boot loader. I got interested

Re: Linux kernel 2.6.16 on 7025-F50 with ServeRAID 4H adapter - IPS driver failure

2006-06-23 Thread AlexB
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:40:11 +0200, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:53:49PM +0300, AlexB wrote: Good day, cannot find any reference to successful installation of IBM ServeRAID adapter for RS/6000 machine with Linux. I am not using Debian linux (it is rather

Linux kernel 2.6.16 on 7025-F50 with ServeRAID 4H adapter - IPS driver failure

2006-06-20 Thread AlexB
Good day, cannot find any reference to successful installation of IBM ServeRAID adapter for RS/6000 machine with Linux. I am not using Debian linux (it is rather Red Hat FC5-ppc) but I presume kernel/drivers are more or less the same. Managed to start Debian netinst CD for PPC platform (version