On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 08:15:13PM -0500, Mike Martin wrote:

I can boot with this image:
http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd

Cool.

And things seems to go very well. Network configures, hard drives
partition, it dies at "Install the base system"  with "The debootstrap
program exited with an error (return value 255)." It instructs me to
check /var/log/messages which now contains: "execv: No such file or
directory"

Strange, can you check at what percentage of "install base system" this error
happned ? can you attach the full /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog ?

Mmm, CCing debian-boot as this seems more relevant there.@

The previous step, partitioning, added:
  "No matching physical volumes found
  No volume groups found
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while..."

Anyone?

MikeMartin

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:57:58 +0100, Sven Luther [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:30:25PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote:

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Hi,

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I would prefer that we fix the debian kernels for them to work correctly
though. More on this on monday.

I failed to configure a stock 2.4.28 kernel to detect the SCSI controler.
I think some of Leigh patches for this must be applied, but I haven't
gone any further.

I had some report on a power3 box, that only the SMP sym53c8xx driver worked.
When configuring in UP mode,

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Do the debian 2.4.27 kernel work on it ? I was unable to boot the 2.4.27 d-i
kernel on my powerstack, but this is a different machine, so the issues may be
a bit different.

I've only tried the Woody PREP kernel, which failed in a way which I can't
remember, but I'll give it a try.

Yes, please, i would greatly appreciate it, preferably the 2.6.8 kernel too.
Let' try to get this fixed before the sarge release, which is not so far off
now.

Friendly,

Sven Luther