Re: Re : Debian on a BiG5

[tom_gall@mac.com]

On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 03:45 AM, xavier grave wrote:

> Le 28.11.2003 21:06:38, fleny68 a écrit :
> > Le Vendredi 28 Novembre 2003 15:16, xavier grave a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have already a BiG4 1Ghz running a debian. Now I have also a BiG5.
> > > How can I create a CD to boot such a beast ?
> > This one should do that. parted with hfs and debootstrap are
> > installed.
> > ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/knoppix-mib.org/k-mib-ppc-beta-pre5.iso.gz
>
> Thanks for this image !
>
> I have tryed to boot it and I get :
> sda:<3>ata1: DMA timeout, stat 0x1
> ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0xF11BF01C

Hmm this sounds like the 250 Gig harddrive problem. I don't suppose you 
have a 250 gig maxtor harddrive?

> After the fans start to go hight...
>
> Any idea of what to do next ?

For fans you want to turn on G5 power management and for the SATA fix, 
just upgrade to a later kernel.  I'm pretty sure its in the current 2.6 
sources from bk. Haven't validated as benh still has my maxtor. :-)

Regards,

Tom