Re: Q: Debian ppc boot with pearpc

2015-06-10 Thread Michael Felt
Is this a Power Systems system, or closer to a Mac? On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > I've installed pearpc and tried to boot Debian 7.8/8.0 ppc iso, but > failed. > error message is > > - >

Re: yaboot: How to load Debian8 netboot installation images directly from the boot: prompt?

2015-06-05 Thread Michael Felt
fit into a Debian FAQ format. For anyone interested: (for wheezy, but same instructions work for jessie!): http://www.rootvg.net/content/view/560/88/ On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:58:38PM +0200,

Re: yaboot: How to load Debian8 netboot installation images directly from the boot: prompt?

2015-06-05 Thread Michael Felt
ut an outage). And I know someone with a Power7 - entry system. I would have to look (and might actually find) someone with a Power8 for testing. Sincerely, Michael Felt On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. < herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is how

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
And last little bit - what is the linux world thinking - spaces in file names? Good grief. (as well as very long names). root@jessie:/etc/NetworkManager# ls -l system* total 4 -rw--- 1 root root 260 May 1 22:44 Wired connection 1 On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Michael Felt wrote

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
MP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) ppc64 GNU/Linux my two cents. On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Felt wrote: > [...] > > > BTW: I notice a slight difference in how 'login as root' works between > > whe

Re: Guide to getting ported?

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
I probably do not know enough to write it well enough myself - mainly because I am unsure of your intended audience. If it is debian you may only be interested in porting between different linux versions - which could be 'tricky' in itself. However, I see you mention 'OpenBSD', and linuxisms. Why

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Felt
yone (using passwords at least) is permitted. Thank you for the link - I shall copy my keys in (later) and report back. And secondly, for the link - for the changes history! Excellent! Michael On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Maybe - last time I tried - I mistyped the log

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Felt
different (in what way please) story on installing debian on PowerVM enabled systems? On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Felt wrote: > [...] > > > BTW: I notice a slight difference in how 'login as root' wor

Re: Help with the arm64 and ppc64el installation-guides needed

2015-05-02 Thread Michael Felt
By the way - I just looked at your installation instructions and I did not find anything about how to install in POWER Server environment, i.e., as a virtual machine (aka LPAR) on IBM POWER5 and later. The ppc64le using KVM will obviously be different, but people using powerpc (historically 32-bit

Re: HELP: test kernel patches on the real thing -- installs but won't reboot after install...

2015-04-28 Thread Michael Felt
I have not read, not looked for an netinst image - if so, I can test on Power6 in any case (using VIOS for virtual ethernet and vscsi for network and disk devices). On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On 4/27/2015 1:46 PM,

Re: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-12 Thread Michael Felt
le drivers ¦ ¦targeted: only include drivers needed for this system ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ +-+ Be sure and choose "targeted". Hope this helps! On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Jus

Re: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-11 Thread Michael Felt
4:00 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 06:59:01PM +0800, Michael Felt wrote: > > Well, I tried the install again. ANd made a small change. The previous > > attempt was using a logical volume as the data area exported to the >

Re: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and vscsi disk (was iscsi)

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Felt
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Update: same hw configuration - but using the netinst 6.0.7 iso image for > boot and installation. Where the 7.1.0 says no where to go, the 6.0.7 one > says: > > ┌─┤ [!!] Install yaboot

Re: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Felt
tition type "PowerPC PReP boot partition". Ideas - better suggestions! Michael On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Well, I tried the install again. ANd made a small change. The previous > attempt was using a logical volume as the data area exported to the >

Re: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Felt
do I submit my findings? regards, Michael On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > forgot reply all... > -- Forwarded message -- > From: "Lennart Sorensen" > Date: Aug 7, 2013 10:40 PM > Subject: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netins

Fwd: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-08 Thread Michael Felt
forgot reply all... -- Forwarded message -- From: "Lennart Sorensen" Date: Aug 7, 2013 10:40 PM Subject: Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk To: "Michael Felt" Cc: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:44:01AM +0800

Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Felt
l again, and make a screen shot. regards, Michael On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Frank Fegert wrote: > Hello Michael, > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:44:01AM +0800, Michael Felt wrote: > > [...] > > > >

showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk

2013-08-05 Thread Michael Felt
Last march I started a thread - that with help - resolved the problem of installing from debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - and installed on a p505. downloading the new yaboot as part of the install (thanks to Lennart Sorensen for the hints/instructions that got me going) and I could install and bo

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Felt
I posted, i.e., mailed, a summary of what is needed for a successful install to 641...@bugs.debian.org. Have not seen anything show up on the list yet, so I hope it is "accepted". regards, Michael On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > Hello everyone, > &g

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Felt
Repeat - to all this time: Does the info I found here need to go into a bug report, or has someone already collected the key information? regards, Michael On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > The boot list shows: > Version SF240_418 > SMS 1.6 (c) Copyright

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Felt
"Linux" by itself, and booted :) So, did I make a typo last time, or what do you suggest? (did it use "old" by accident?) regards, Michael On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > found it, yaboot.conf > > The original contents: > ## yaboot.co

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Felt
rds, Michael p.s. results follow. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:09:22PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > > Thanks. But not knowing yaboot (yes, such people exist :p@me ) how do I > >

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Felt
e AIX like device string with the squeeze, did not work. And, I hope this helps! Michael On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > I'll give it a shot. > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen < > lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wro

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Felt
I'll give it a shot. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 08:33:34AM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > > upgrade? how? i am using netinst.iso to do the install, and what is > installed does not b

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Felt
; > Best regards, > >  Frank > > > [1] > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:57:52PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: >    >> p.s. disk types tried: logical volume f

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Felt
riginal message From: Lennart Sorensen Date: 19/03/2013 16:50 (GMT+01:00) To: Michael Felt Cc: Frank Fegert ,debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installation - boot after installation fails On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:56:00PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > 4 to 5 years ago I wa

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Felt
p.s. disk types tried: logical volume from a vgClient volume group, iSCSI LUN (virtual "physical" disk). sizes: 10G and 12G (I regularly install AIX on 4 and 6G "disks"). On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Michael Felt wrote: > 4 to 5 years ago I was only able to get

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Felt
f you prefer, etc..) just might be a few hours to days between responses as I also have regular work to attend to. Thanks!!! for your assistance! Michael On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 08:36:10PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote:

Re: Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Felt
>From memory it is creating three partitions - boot, swap and /. The boot partition is position 1 iirc. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:01:08PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote: > > Hello e

Installation - boot after installation fails

2013-03-17 Thread Michael Felt
Hello everyone, I downloaded the debian netinstaller - debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - and installed on a p505. The installation process goes well, but the boot fails. I tried using the LVM with multiple partitions and got this message If you omit "device:" and "partno" yaboot will use the val