Bug#243193: installation report for G5

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:47:41AM -0700, Brian wrote:
> The machine booted from CD and i saw the Yaboot prompt.  I
> tried install-power4 and the kernel began to initialize.  It
> got through about 30 linux until this message:
> Serial driver version 5.05 (20001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS
> SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)
> do_IRQ waiting for irq lock (holder=1)

Have you tried recent daily CD builds, ideally with install-power4-2.6?
I have got debian-installer booting on a G5, albeit with a custom kernel
since at the time the stock kernels didn't support the machine in
question, so I think it should basically be OK on them now.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]