Re: Installing on a dual G5
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:21:26PM -0400, Miro Jurišić wrote:
> Miro Jurišić wrote:
> >Yeah, I was going to as soon as I figure out exactly which one of many
> >different images that I failed with I should be using :-) I am burning
> >the sid_d-i image as per Colin's suggestion and will report back soon.
>
> I burned the image at
> <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/powerpc/
> 20040622/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso>. After entering install-power4
> at the yaboot prompt, yaboot loads the kernel and the RAM disk, and
> then the machine dies with an OF error. Specifically, it fails trying
> to start the CPU at /cpus/PowerPC,G5 -- not too surprising, as my cpus
> are at /cpus/PowerPC,G5@0 and /cpus/PowerPC,G5@1, according to OF. I
> assume this is why you said that I need to use an SMP kernel, but I see
> no such kernel on that image.
The 2.4.25 kernel image builds in the archive don't include a power4 SMP
kernel, or if they do they don't advertise it as such.
Can you try booting with install-power4-2.6?
The 2.6.6 kernel image builds in the archive do include an SMP kernel,
which we currently aren't using. Is it safe to use this for all power4
systems?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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