[Debian-ppc64-devel] Openpower 710 Installation

[Etienne Le Sueur]

OK,

I've done some more fiddling...

I found some recovery DVD images for the HMC on IBM's website, and 
followed some notes on a pseriestech.org
forum post about tricking the installer into thinking it was being used 
on IBM hardware.

The result is a working HMC on a dell optiplex.

I did manage to get debian-ppc64 installed and running on this machine, 
but it's not letting me add any more
LPARs.

I guess this is because the licensing isn't set up to allow this. Am I 
correct in this assumption?

Does anyone know why a particular machine would not be capable of CoD ?

-- 
Regards,
Etienne Le Sueur



Nölle, Christian wrote:
> Etienne Le Sueur wrote:
>  
>   
>> Can anyone suggest a place to start, or tell me what I can and cannot
>> do without an HMC. Can I emulate an HMC using another machine?
>>     
>
> No, you can't emulate a HMC, as this is a x86-Machine with a Linux
> modified by IBM. 
>
>   
>> All I have been able to do as of now is get into the ASMI using serial
>> and the web interface, and as I now understand, there is not much
>> configuration I can do from that with regard to the partitioning
>> etc... 
>>     
>
> As this is a question of getting a VIO-Server running on that machine to handle 
> the other virtual machines and of having a machine that is registered to run
> virtual machines, that question is not easy to answer :).
>
>   
>> Even if I can only get debian running on the bare metal, that would
>> be a good start!
>>     
>
> That should work. You can try Ubuntu as well, running fine on OP 720.
>
> Greetings!
>
>