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Bug#396412: marked as done (installation-reports: Installation report on AS/400 / iSeries / System i / i5)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:19 +0000
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and subject line Closing old installation report #396412
has caused the Debian Bug report #396412,
regarding installation-reports: Installation report on AS/400 / iSeries / System i / i5
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

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  Boot method: Virtual CD-ROM (LODIMGCLG IMGCLG(MYCLG) DEV(OPTVRT01)
               OPTION(*LOAD))
Image version: etch with d-i beta3 (as of August 2006) -
               http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_beta3/powerpc/iso-dvd
         Date: 27 Oct 2006

  Machine: IBM iSeries / i5 / AS/400 / System i (whatever IBM calls it
           now) Model 570
Processor: POWER5+, 2.2GHz, dual-core
   Memory: 1275696 kB
Partitions: sda1 PPC PReP Partition, sda2 /, sda5 swap

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: Machine has no PCI

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [E]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [ ]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Overall install:        [O]

Comments/Problems:
I tried to install Debian as a "guest" within an i5/OS (or OS/400)
partition via the CRTNWSD (Create Network Server Description) command.
Unfortunately, i5/OS refused to recognize neither the yaird image nor the
kernel itself as a valid IPL source.
However, turning the partition on via the HMC and booting into SMS
worked. Note that the the NWS has still to be varied on via WRKCFGSTS
*NWS. Else, virtual I/O devices (and most notably NWSSTG) are missing.

After booting into SMS, I was able to choose the virtual CD-ROM drive as
IPL source. Booting and installing was straightforward (in case, one
chose the "expert64" or "install64" yaboot entry - i5 refuses to boot
from 32 bit kernels and crashes into ofdbg displaying a nice register
dump). Graphics were a bit garbled[1] on the console (via telnet
<i5/OS partition> 2301), but d-i was usable.

D-i allowed me to make my root partition managed by LVM, what I chose on
my first try. However, yaboot was unable to read its config from this
partition, so I reinstalled (it was friday afternoon anyway) it without
LVM on my /.

yaboot was installed to a PReP partition (nothing notably until then)
and the system rebooted. Unfortunately, I didn't start installation in
expert mode, so I didn't notice that d-i only installed a 32 bit kernel.
As expected, yaboot booted right into the open firmware debugger.

After re-restarting the installation in expert mode, I hoped to find a
64 bit kernel in the installer's kernel selection list. However, only 32
bit kernels where listed, so I had to install a 64 bit version via a
chroot environment in the command line.

After rebooting, yaboot loaded the Elf64 kernel and all services
started. However, a getty did not start on /dev/console (what made me a
bit nervous first). I don't know if this is considered a bug or not...

Anyway - nice job! I didn't expect the installation to go on that
smoothly ;-)


Footnotes
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1: http://kitt.yath.de/~yath/2006-10-31-d-i-1.png

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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