I tried the Zsombor's iso of 12.10.2010 on a PowerBook G3, it installed.
I rebooted and came into yaboot 1.3.16. I selected Linux and it
stopped.
Please wait, loading kernel...
Elf64 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
ramdisk loaded at 0150, size 10044 Kbytes
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=700 at
I tried the Zsombor's iso of 12.10.2010 on a PowerBook G3, it installed.
I rebooted and came into yaboot 1.3.16. I selected Linux and it
stopped.
Please wait, loading kernel...
Elf64 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
ramdisk loaded at 0150, size 10044 Kbytes
It seems that it
I included yaboot 1.3.16 in my own version of simple-cdd and I tried
again and had a look at the console:
yaboot-installer: chroot: can't execute 'mkofboot': No such file or
directory
yaboot-installer: error: mkofboot failed with exit status 127
Op 17/10/2010 schreef Xavier Grave
It seemed like an error, but it installed yaboot correctly! (see earlier
post). It gave me a warning that yaboot couldn't be installed but it
installed perfectly...
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It is due to a symlink to a nonexistent file, but ybin is able to setup boot.
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Jeroen Diederen jjhdiede...@zonnet.nl wrote:
It seemed like an error, but it installed yaboot correctly! (see earlier
post). It gave me a warning that yaboot couldn't be installed but
Hello all,
2010.10.13. 23:53 Gary gdri...@gmail.com:
Does ofpath need updated in the yaboot-installer package? I tried your
latest image and get the same error. You can read my debug logs here:
http://ftp.extensis.com/ppc/logs/
Probably, as I think Yaboot cannot determine the device:
Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 10:32 -0700, Gary a écrit :
Thanks for the sleuthing, Ben. But I can't help but wonder how the
Lenny installer works to allow me to install unstable or testing on my
G5 with SATA...? Am I missing something important in the multiple
threads spawned by this issue
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
To help about this _specific_ issue, please report to #572869. Your SATA
controller should have been supported by yaboot, as I thought that
changes made to 1.3.16 fixed that, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
To help
Also, I'm not sure if this is relevant but only the late 2005 Power
Mac G5s has PCIe whereas all previous revs used PCI-X.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5#Product_revision_history
-Gary
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Hi all,
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried to do this with Zsombor's recent build but, unfortunately, the
network driver wasn't recognized and a suitable kernel wasn't found
for the installation (using expert64 boot option). I didn't look to
At
Hi,
Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 09:51 -0700, Gary a écrit :
I tried to do this with Zsombor's recent build but, unfortunately, the
network driver wasn't recognized
Is it recognized with the original installer ? If it's the case, it
means there's definitly something wrong with Zsombor image
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Benjamin Cama wrote:
So, for now, no SATA for yaboot. Sorry it took so much time to
understand it myself. I'll try to do something with Joseph's code, or,
may I ask you directly : do you want to help on integrating your code to
current ofpath, Joseph ?
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Zsombor wrote:
At http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/ , I removed the custom kernel and
the ehea module from the di-kernel.
So this release contains the official base image, the only change is
the yaboot replace (1.3.13a1 - 1.3.16)
Does ofpath need updated in
Hi Benjamin
Excerpts from Benjamin Cama's message of Mon Okt 11 00:21:23 +0200 2010:
That's where I am asking for help from the d-i team: how could we test
this new package from a d-i install disc ? Is there an easier and more
officially-compliant way, so that we can report bugs without
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Hi all,
You can try a new DI image at http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/
* official 64-bit kernel replaced by a custom kernel
[linux-image-2.6.32zsexp01]
with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y - an idea to make it
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Hi all,
You can try a new DI image at http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/
* official 64-bit kernel replaced by a custom kernel
[linux-image-2.6.32zsexp01]
with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y - an idea to make it
2010.10.11. 11:25 xavier grave xavier.gr...@ipno.in2p3.fr:
(...)
No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources
Uhh. I dont understand yet why it didnt find
the 'linux-image-2.6.32zsexp01' image.
I expected that will solve the installation issue on Macs.
I'm gonna get back to
Hello all
Thanks Benjamin,
2010.10.11. 0:21 Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr:
any nobody else will want to help us if we don't try to do things in a
more organized way. We already had no help from the di team about this
new yaboot release, let's hope that by making things the right way
we'll get
Hi Gaudenz,
Le lundi 11 octobre 2010 à 09:41 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit :
Did you only modify the yaboot package or did you modify
yaboot-installer as well?
I only modified the yaboot package. From what I gathered regarding this
update, yaboot-installer will need a small change too for
Hi all,
You can try a new DI image at http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/
* official 64-bit kernel replaced by a custom kernel [linux-image-2.6.32zsexp01]
with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y - an idea to make it work on Mac
+ added ehea nic module (for 64bit di-kernel only) - to support Power6 netcard
Hi,
Hi all,
You can try a new DI image at http://171.19.196.12/dl/debppc/
* official 64-bit kernel replaced by a custom kernel
[linux-image-2.6.32zsexp01]
with CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y + added ehea nic module (for 64bit di-kernel
only)
If you have time to test, I'm looking forward to
Also available here: http://ftp.extensis.com/ppc/
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Hi Zsombor,
First, my apologies for being so slow to answer. And thank you for the
custom installer you built.
I am very thankfull for your enthusiasm, but I would like to point out
some thing that you're doing wrong. I am saying that not to deter anyone
to do anything, but to try to be more
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried this on the same G5 with mostly the same results. I've
Bad news.
I compile a custom kernel this weekend, setting CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS to
'y'. In the official one, it is turned off so no legacy /proc/scsi
directory. I will pray
On Oct 9, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Zsombor wrote:
Anyway, does the official installer work on your G5?
Last time I checked, none of the unstable or testing installers worked either.
It was only by accident that I discovered choosing the advanced option from
Lenny does it ask if I want stable,
On Don, 2010-10-07 at 22:22 +0200, Zsombor wrote:
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote:
Oct 7 19:28:15 kernel: [ 718.054292] ioctl32(nvsetenv:10901):
Unknown cmd fd(7) cmd(20007043){t:'p';sz:0} arg(0009) on
/dev/nvram
I haven't seen this. Maybe some 32-bit
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Le 07/10/2010 20:40, Zsombor a écrit :
Thank you everyone for the hosting offers.
I'm planning to create other experimental cd-sets regarding to this
port (of course with Yaboot 1.3.16), and live-usb images.
Please let me know what packages
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, xavier grave
xavier.gr...@ipno.in2p3.fr wrote:
the ethernet board isn't recognised.
My configuration : is a power6 based machine
Machine type-model: 8203-E4A
My ethernet board needs this module : ehea
it seems it's not available :
ls
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On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:31 PM, xavier grave
xavier.gr...@ipno.in2p3.fr wrote:
the ethernet board isn't recognised.
My configuration : is a power6 based machine
Machine type-model: 8203-E4A
My ethernet
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM, xavier grave xavier.gr...@ipno.in2p3.fr wrote:
What kind of installation type did you use? (auto/install/expert)
install64
What kind of check do you want me to do ?
I meant I'm gonna do some check this installer what modules are
included at its boot-time.
If
On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Zsombor wrote:
The most bothering issue is the install failure, reported by Gary on his G5.
If you have access to the Lenny installer source, it was able to correctly set
up my yaboot.conf for a successful install of Squeeze. Thank you for working on
this. I've
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com wrote:
If you have access to the Lenny installer source, it was able to correctly
set up my yaboot.conf for a successful install of Squeeze. Thank you for
working on this. I've access to G3 G4 Macs if you want testing on some of
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Until that, you can try a new iso soon.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010, Zsombor wrote:
Until that, you can try a new iso soon. 32bit and smp kernels are
added and also ehea nic module included for 64bit. I started writing a
changelog file to know what's happening in new releases.
The new files are available at the URL below. I'll try an
I tried this on the same G5 with mostly the same results. I've
archived /var/log/* and /etc/yaboot conf here:
http://ftp.extensis.com/ppc/logs/
I will give a quick try on a G4 next so if you see additional files
with today's date/time stamp then that is what they're from.
-Gary
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I tried booting the same disc on a PowerMac G4 (mirrored door) and got a white
screen. But the same thing happened with Ubuntu. Are there any issues with
yaboot this system and/or the Radeon 9000 Pro card that shipped with these
units? I guess I should search the list archive, eh? ;)
-Gary
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 07:26:43PM -0700, Gary Driggs wrote:
I tried booting the same disc on a PowerMac G4 (mirrored door) and got
a white screen. But the same thing happened with Ubuntu. Are there any
issues with yaboot this system and/or the Radeon 9000 Pro card that
shipped with these
Thank you everyone for the hosting offers.
I'm planning to create other experimental cd-sets regarding to this
port (of course with Yaboot 1.3.16), and live-usb images.
Please let me know what packages should be included. I see more Mac
users than IBM PowerPC but it seems it works well on both.
I just tested this disc on a G5 Mac and got the following error:
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober:
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: No volume groups found
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober:
Oct 7 19:28:15 os-prober: debug: running
/usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/sda1
Oct 7 19:28:15 50mounted-tests:
Thank you. I'm sure I will need help to solve this. The official image
works, so something must be missing from this di.
What FS do you use on sda3?
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Gary gdri...@gmail.com wrote:
I just tested this disc on a G5 Mac and got the following error:
(...)
Oct 7
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Zsombor wrote:
What FS do you use on sda3?
It was a blank drive but it formatted it with ext3.
Additionally, I forgot to include the 32-bit kernel in this ISO.
That's OK as this was using the 64-bit installer... good thing I
couldn't get it to work on the G4
It ought to look something closer to this when finished (same system,
different drive)...
boot=/dev/sda2
ofboot=/h...@0,f200/p...@5/k2-sata-r...@c/k2-s...@0/d...@0:2
device=/h...@0,f200/p...@5/k2-sata-r...@c/k2-s...@0/d...@0:
partition=4
root=/dev/sda4
timeout=100
Hi,
I've repackaged yaboot 1.3.16 with modified mkofboot symlink and created a
minimal di cdrom iso (~230MB).
This installer works without any issue. It is a very minimal installer with
some additional packages, under profile 'bah' :
bzip2
ifenslave-2.6
iptables
joe
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Le 06/10/2010 14:56, zsomb...@gmail.com a écrit :
Hi,
I've repackaged yaboot 1.3.16 with modified mkofboot symlink and created
a minimal di cdrom iso (~230MB).
This installer works without any issue. It is a very minimal installer
with some
Thank you all.
Temporarly, I uploaded the ISO, md5 and the important README file to:
http://visaportal.hu/dl/debppc/
Where you can download them. Gary, I already uploaded the ISO to your ftp site.
MD5 checksum is: 6278f3a71c19828e4532578e81fbf0ef
Thank you again,
Zsombor
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Zsombor wrote:
.
MD5 checksum is: 6278f3a71c19828e4532578e81fbf0ef
Everyone can download from here for testing. In a few weeks I'll
remove the files but am happy to host additional iterations.
http://ftp.extensis.com/it/deb/debian-unstable-ppc-bah.iso
Hello All,
I've created a minimal installer CD with yaboot 1.3.16 and tried on my
Power5 machine. The installer is based on squeeze repo.
Near the finish, yaboot installer failed:
Oct 5 14:11:33 yaboot-installer: info: ofpath returned nothing;
leaving out device= line and praying
Oct 5
On Oct 5, 2010, at 6:12 AM, Zsombor wrote:
Do you have any advise? Maybe I missed something from the installer?
Folks are in the process of fixing that. In the mean time, the best way to
install testing or unstable is to use the advanced option from the stable
install discs.
kind regards,
2010/10/5 Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com:
On Oct 5, 2010, at 6:12 AM, Zsombor wrote:
Do you have any advise? Maybe I missed something from the installer?
Folks are in the process of fixing that. In the mean time, the best way to
install testing or unstable is to use the advanced option from
Hi,
Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Zsombor a écrit :
Oct 5 14:11:33 yaboot-installer: chroot: can't execute 'mkofboot': No
such file or directory
This is a packaging mistake, already reported here, and fixed in my git
repo. But the package is not up to date.
I included the official
Hello all,
Thanks for the suggests, I'm going to change to sid.
As I dont like to give up, some further investigation made me clear
that mkofboot is a link to /ybin instead of simply ybin. After
rebooted in rescue mode, and running ybin manually, prep part. has
been set up properly and now the
Hi Aurélien,
Le samedi 02 octobre 2010 à 19:33 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit :
Can you please produce a standard debian package with quilt patches?
I will try, but will need some time. I think some git util is able to do
that automatically, isn't it ?
It was like that previously and I did
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:56:49AM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote:
So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems, and
until now we were only talking about it. Here is some code to test it,
now to really see what's still causing problems and what's solved.
Good, as I have
Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 01:56 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit :
Hi everyone,
So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems, and
until now we were only talking about it. Here is some code to test it,
now to really see what's still causing problems and what's solved.
Em 30Set2010 (quinta), Tiresia Giuno tires...@googlemail.com disse:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:56:49 +0200
Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
Hi everyone,
So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems,
and until now we were only talking about it. Here is some
etc # ybin -v
ybin: hfsutils is not installed or cannot be found
ybin: Try --mount if Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc supports HFS
Strange you didn't have it already. Is this an old install upgraded to
Squeeze?
No I installed it from a Lenny netboot recently, using the expert
method. In
Hi,
Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 à 22:29 +0200, Tiresia Giuno a écrit :
I let just the package installer installing yaboot. After that I ran
ofpath and it detected correctly my two SATA Drivers.
Nice to know it works on SATA. Did the previous version (1.3.13a) work
too ?
After that I ran
Hi,
Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 10:11 +0200, Thomas Constans a écrit :
I'have tested your package on a ibook g4 with success
I am using uuid as disc/partition identifier in yaboot.conf
i am also using crypted root fs (luks)
package installed, ybin ran, laptop successfully rebooted
Hi,
Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 05:59 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit :
Em 30Set2010 (quinta), Tiresia Giuno tires...@googlemail.com disse:
After that I ran yabootconfig. It creates a yaboot.conf but it stops
immediately without running mkofboot. Last massage:
'yabootconfig: yaboot is not
Hi Benjamin,
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
(...)
We got no answer from the installer team regarding an easy way to test
it, so if someone feels like building a custom installer, let us know.
Actually, I'm on it.
My IBM p550 has a squeeze on an ext3-fs but
Hi Zsombor
Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 15:43 +0200, Zsombor a écrit :
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
(...)
We got no answer from the installer team regarding an easy way to test
it, so if someone feels like building a custom installer, let us know.
2010/10/1 Gunther Furtado gunfurt...@gmail.com:
Em 30Set2010 (quinta), Tiresia Giuno tires...@googlemail.com disse:
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:56:49 +0200
Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
Hi everyone,
So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems,
and until now
Thank you Benjamin,
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
My IBM p550 has a squeeze on an ext3-fs but I prefer xfs.
I don't want to disappoint you, but I don't see in the logs of 1.3.16
anything new regarding xfs: it ought to be the same as 1.3.13a. Maybe
the
I will do some more testing soon to see how this yaboot behaves in the
SID/Squeeze installer. I presume that I can just get into a tty from
within the installer, install the newer yaboot and have the installer
put the bootlaoder on the bootstrap partition. Or is it more difficult?
Jeroen
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Hi,
2010/9/28 Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr
Hi everyone,
So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems, and
until now we were only talking about it. Here is some code to test it,
now to really see what's still causing problems and what's solved.
Here is the (temporary)
Hi,
Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 21:52 +0200, Jeroen Diederen a écrit :
I tested this new yaboot in my Squeeze partition on my PowerBook G3
Pismo. I installed it without problems and I issued a ybin -v. I
rebooted and yaboot 1.3.16 smiled at me. I am back in my Squeeze
partition, no
Ok I reconfigured linux-base, it changed my yaboot.conf into the
following:
# boot = /dev/hda2
boot = /dev/disk/by-label/bootstrap
device=/p...@f200/mac...@17/at...@1f000/d...@0:
partition=4
# root = /dev/hda4
root = UUID=a2caa578-59c2-47e7-b928-5cc22955320e
timeout=100
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:56:49 +0200
Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
Hi everyone,
So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems,
and until now we were only talking about it. Here is some code to
test it, now to really see what's still causing problems and what's
Hi,
Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 00:24 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit :
Cool!
Thanks.
Now, how do we test it?
Well, for now I was only thinking about testing it outside the
installer…
Can somebody from the installer group help us figure out how to get
this code into the installer
Hello,
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Benjamin Cama ben...@free.fr wrote:
BTW, yaboot-installer will have to be fixed regarding amiga partition
table numbering : it has been fixed upstream, and there's no need for a
workaround anymore. (well, just reading from the patch; I don't have
such
Hello all,
Great news, thank you.
I'm going to test it on my IBM p550. This machine can be used for
experimental purposes, so I can test lots of things. But, where can I
check what should be tested? In the changelog I could not find too
much. Actually I'm using 1.3.13a1.
First of all, I want to
Hi all,
I tested this new yaboot in my Squeeze partition on my PowerBook G3
Pismo. I installed it without problems and I issued a ybin -v. I
rebooted and yaboot 1.3.16 smiled at me. I am back in my Squeeze
partition, no problems!!
If you need more info, let me know.
Regards,
Jeroen
etc #
Hi everyone,
So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems, and
until now we were only talking about it. Here is some code to test it,
now to really see what's still causing problems and what's solved.
Here is the (temporary) place where you can find it :
Cool!
Now, how do we test it?
Can somebody from the installer group help us figure out how to get
this code into the installer environment? Is it as simple as putting
the .deb on a USB stick and breaking out to the Alt-F2 VT at some
point in the install and do a dpkg -i ? Or is it going
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