Bug#243193: installation report for G5

[Brian <brian_252@yahoo.com>]

--- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> 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,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                 
> [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

Colin,

Thanks for getting back to me.  The bug i reported is quite
old.  Yes this serial driver and do_irq problem has been fixed.
 So you can close the bug.

In addition, i did something like you say above.  I used
debian-installer, but it installed a 2.4 kernel.  I couldn't
use the debian cdimage because the sata modules were modules! 
So i used a Gentoo iso and set root=/dev/sda3.  After booting i
built a new kernel, packaged it, and installed it.  I'm now
running on the sweetest system ever: KDE, Debian, G5!  I wrote
an installation-report with more details.

--Brian