Re: Boot issues with debian-installer on ppc64

2024-02-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi, On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 09:13 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The interesting bit is the kernel in question works fine when installing it > later instead of booting > from CD, so it might not be a kernel issue after all. However, I can no clue > yet what may have changed > in either

Re: Boot issues with debian-installer on ppc64

2024-02-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Richard, On Tue, 2024-02-27 at 22:51 -0600, Richard Allen wrote: > I tried these on my Dual-processor PCI-X G5. > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > >

Re: Boot issues with debian-installer on ppc64

2024-02-27 Thread Richard Allen
t images here: > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test-new/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > There is also an updated debian-installer image for ppc

Boot issues with debian-installer on ppc64

2024-02-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
test images here: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/tests/ppc64-test-new/debian-12.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso There is also an updated debian-installer image for ppc64 with the 6.6.15

Re: Status of debian-installer on PPC64

2004-03-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:32:21AM +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: * Anton Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 23:21]: [...] Also, are you generally interested in helping with our PPC64 port? As I see it, this needs to be done to get the PPC64 port started:

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-12-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-14 11:22]: Mmm, maybe it should be possible to create a proper kernel package for your boxes, could you send me a .config file for a 2.4.22 kernel ? Will the standard linuxppc_2_4 tree do, or do you need special patches ? Has this been done? -- Martin

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-12-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:05:07AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-14 11:22]: Mmm, maybe it should be possible to create a proper kernel package for your boxes, could you send me a .config file for a 2.4.22 kernel ? Will the standard linuxppc_2_4 tree

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-15 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, Mmm, maybe it should be possible to create a proper kernel package for your boxes, could you send me a .config file for a 2.4.22 kernel ? Will the standard linuxppc_2_4 tree do, or do you need special patches ? We need to get the 64bit ppc cross compiler into debian, it sounded like

debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, We tested debian-installer (daily build from a day ago) on a ppc64 box and found a few issues. To keep life interesting, we also used a 2.6 kernel. 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel.

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:47:12PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: Hi, We tested debian-installer (daily build from a day ago) on a ppc64 box and found a few issues. To keep life interesting, we also used a 2.6 kernel. 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:22:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel. It doesnt look like there are too many places that care. The initrd had an empty

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-14 11:22]: | 3. No fdisk found. For some reason only mac-fdisk was available in the | install image. | | Same as above, d-i doesn't support subarches yet. That said, parted | should be available, and normally you should be able to use partitioner |