[Debian-ppc64-devel] help: installing debian in a IBM pSeries power5 ppc64

[Rodrigo Vivi]

Hi Sven,

I've installed using a gentoo livecd and using the debian ppc64 chroot
enviroment downloaded from
http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/ppc64-chroot.tar.bz2 .

after this I've copied to my sda3 and chroot into it ...
after this I used the apt-get to download the source kernel 2.6.18, I've
configured and compiled it.
I've set too the fstab manually and use the yabootconfig command to setup
the prep partition and point to my kernel.

After a restart I saw that yaboot was ok and the kernel started to boot
successfully, but
after this messages it stoped.
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Starting system log daemon: syslogd.
Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
Starting MTA: exim4.
Starting internet superserver: inetd.
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdStarting periodic command
scheduler: cron.

and staied here forever.

Do you know what can be wrong ?

Thanks

On 9/26/06, Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:26:27PM -0300, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > On 9/25/06, Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > >
> > >On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:17:22PM -0300, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> Which is the better way to install debian on this machine ?
> > >
> > >  If you have CD access, then you burn the following iso :
> > >
> > >
> > >
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
> > >
> > >  qnd boot with install64, and follow instructions, it should mostly
> work.
> >
> >
> > That was exactly the way that I've started this installation.
> > The problem that I had:
> > The installation broke when try to check the cd integrity. I've already
> > check the image that is ok. but seens that something is missing and the
> > anaconda can not access ... I'm away from this machine right now and I
> don't
> > remember exactly the message but I will paste then here when I get then
> > again.
>
> Then you should maybe try the netbooting installation approach :
>
>
> http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/daily/powerpc64/netboot/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd
>
> I would boot it with the console=hvc0 (or whatever your virtual console
> is),
> argument. There is a bunch of builtin console arguments, but this is not
> exactly working fully, but should be ok on an LPAR.
>
> Alternatively, you can grab the yaboot, yaboot.conf, vmlinux and initrd.gz
> from the same directory, put them on your tftp server, adapt the
> yaboot.conf.
> you would need to boot them through dhcp though.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
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