Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-06 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: >    yaboot_text_ui - Entering kernel... > OF stdout device is: /vdevice/v...@3000 > Hypertas detected, assuming LPAR ! > / > Elapsed time since release of system processors: 80455 mins 46 secs It looks like yaboot was able to load the kern

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-06 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:00:25AM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Frank Fegert wrote: > > > Hm, good question. On the Power5 definately, because the system starts > > up fine ;-) On the Power6 i guess too, because the last lines displayed > > before the

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-05 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Frank Fegert wrote: > Hm, good question. On the Power5 definately, because the system starts > up fine ;-) On the Power6 i guess too, because the last lines displayed > before the "invalid device" is the kernel image path selected from the > yaboot menu. Sorry for

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Fegert
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:12:12PM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: > > > As you can see from the commented entry for "root=" in yaboot.conf > > i already tried using the non-dm-multipathed devices, but this wasn't > > the cause of the problem

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-05 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: > As you can see from the commented entry for "root=" in yaboot.conf > i already tried using the non-dm-multipathed devices, but this wasn't > the cause of the problem. That looks pretty strange. I presume you're absolutely sure you don't acci

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-05 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:38:41AM +1100, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:29:59PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote: > > today i tried to move a LPAR w/ Debian Lenny from a p570 (Power5+) to > > a p550 (Power6). The system resides on VIO-mapped SAN disks, so moving > > it wasn't a b

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-04 Thread Tony Breeds
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:29:59PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote: > Hello all, > > today i tried to move a LPAR w/ Debian Lenny from a p570 (Power5+) to > a p550 (Power6). The system resides on VIO-mapped SAN disks, so moving > it wasn't a big deal. Unfortunately it bails out pretty early in the > boo

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-04 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: > I'm pretty sure its in the initrd, but not 100% sure. I'll check > tomorrow. The "invalid device" message occurs directly after the > yaboot kernel prompt, way before the usual kernel and initrd out- > put. Ah, I missed that part on the firs

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-04 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:32:18PM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: > > Next i set up a blank LPAR on the p550 and installed Debian Lenny from > > scratch. As with the rescue boot, the install itself went fine, but the > > following ini

Re: Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-04 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: > Next i set up a blank LPAR on the p550 and installed Debian Lenny from > scratch. As with the rescue boot, the install itself went fine, but the > following initial boot failed with the same error as above. I did install Lenny into p510's LPA

Debian on a pSeries Power6 anyone?

2009-03-04 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello all, today i tried to move a LPAR w/ Debian Lenny from a p570 (Power5+) to a p550 (Power6). The system resides on VIO-mapped SAN disks, so moving it wasn't a big deal. Unfortunately it bails out pretty early in the boot process with: "unable to open file, Invalid device" on the kernels "ro