Re: Debian on POWER5

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:55:48AM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote:
> Hi list! 
> 
> Is there anyone with experience using Debian on i5 LPARS?
> 
> I am starting to deploy a part of our infrastructure on the i5 soon and
> I need to gather as much information as possible.
> 
> I got training from IBM for running Linux on i5, but they promote Suse
> Enterprise and Redhat, which does not serve our interests. 
> 
> Any hints would be appreciated. 

I did a debian/etch install on JS21 blades yesterday. There are some glitches,
but right now you should try :

  1) get http://people.debian.org/~luther/debian-installer-64bit-2
  2) put it on your tftp server or wherever and boot it.
  3) the install should go glitchless until yaboot-installer.
  4) after the yaboot-installer failure, go to the menu, and into a shell.
  5) chroot into /target
  6) edit yaboot.conf, erase the device= line, the magicboot= line.
  7) add append="console=hvc0 root=/dev/sda2" to the image entries.
  8) save yaboot.conf and run ybin.
  9) exit the chroot, exit the shell, don't install yaboot but continue
  without bootloader (two menu items lower).
  10) reboot, and enjoy ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther