Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-17 Thread Zsombor
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 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 it > installed perfe

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-17 Thread Jeroen Diederen
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... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-17 Thread Jeroen Diederen
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" : > > >> I t

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-17 Thread Xavier Grave
> 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 see

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-17 Thread Jeroen Diederen
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

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
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

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
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 i

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
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 ? Th

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Benjamin Cama
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

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Zsombor
Hi all, On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Gary 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 http://171.19.196.12/dl/deb

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Gary
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Benjamin Cama 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 diagnose the pro

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-11 Thread Benjamin Cama
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 P

Re: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-11 Thread zsombibi
2010.10.11. 11:25 xavier grave : (...) "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 you when this kernel will

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-11 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 10/10/2010 12:42, Zsombor a écrit : > 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

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-11 Thread xavier grave
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 10/10/2010 12:42, Zsombor a écrit : > 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

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-11 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
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 d

Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-10 Thread Benjamin Cama
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 orga

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-10 Thread Gary Driggs
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Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-10 Thread Xavier Grave
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 for

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer

2010-10-10 Thread Zsombor
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