Re: Installing on a dual G5
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:05:39PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:21:26PM -0400, Miro Juri??i?? wrote:
> > Miro Juri??i?? wrote:
> > >Yeah, I was going to as soon as I figure out exactly which one of many
> > >different images that I failed with I should be using :-) I am burning
> > >the sid_d-i image as per Colin's suggestion and will report back soon.
> >
> > I burned the image at
> > <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/
> > 20040622/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso>. After entering install-power4
> > at the yaboot prompt, yaboot loads the kernel and the RAM disk, and
> > then the machine dies with an OF error. Specifically, it fails trying
> > to start the CPU at /cpus/PowerPC,G5 -- not too surprising, as my cpus
> > are at /cpus/PowerPC,G5@0 and /cpus/PowerPC,G5@1, according to OF. I
> > assume this is why you said that I need to use an SMP kernel, but I see
> > no such kernel on that image.
>
> The 2.4.25 kernel image builds in the archive don't include a power4 SMP
> kernel, or if they do they don't advertise it as such.
Well, the power4 2.4.25 kernel is the SMP version, if i remember well.
Since each build represented 1 hour on my box, i did make only one
> Can you try booting with install-power4-2.6?
>
> The 2.6.6 kernel image builds in the archive do include an SMP kernel,
> which we currently aren't using. Is it safe to use this for all power4
> systems?
Yep, but represent a 20-40 or so performance hit on uniprocessor system,
at least that is what benh claimed, see previous threads on this.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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