[Debian-ppc64-devel] Successful installation in an OpenPower 720 Express

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 02:36:49PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On Sep/14, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > Would you be so kind, and test also :
> >   http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc64/
> > well, no CD isos yet, need to fix them, but you can easily enough use the
> > netboot install.
> 
> 	Ok. Can I load this via yaboot? Now that I have it working, I'm
> sure it's easier than using netboot :-)

Sure.

> > Ah, these are no more to be used, i will remove that link. The etch/sid
> > linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc64 kernels are the ones you need.
> 
> 	Ok, downloading and testing right now.
> 
> > Official debian/etch should be just fine, you will also get the biarch
> > toolchain that way, and the newer glibc with NPTLS support.
> 
> 	Ok. I'll try an installation using the official mirrors. If
> something fails, I'll post here.

Nice. Or fill real bug reports about it.

> > Can you provide lspci for this one ? Is it the same as the IBM serverraid ? If
> > so, i didn't see any tool for them available, not sure though.
> 
> 	Here you are:
> 
> 0000:d0:01.0 RAID bus controller: Mylex Corporation Gemstone chipset SCSI controller (rev 04)
>         Subsystem: IBM Dual Channel PCI-X U320 SCSI RAID Adapter
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, slow devsel, latency 144, IRQ 135
>         BIST result: 00
>         Memory at a0900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
>         Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
>         Expansion ROM at a0800000 [disabled] [size=1M]
>         Capabilities: [40] PCI-X non-bridge device.
>         Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable 
> -
>         Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 2
> 
> 	It's not a serverraid, as you can see. I'll use the hint of Martin
> Alfke and see if we've got a CD-ROM to the end of configuring the card. I
> didn't count on it because the OP came a bit naked, but maybe I overlooked
> something. Thanks anyway.

Hehe,

Friendly,

Sven Luther