Re: kernel hangs at boot on dual G5

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:38:47AM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > Tell me seriously this guy can't burn a netinst CD ?
> Don't really know. At worst, I can do that for him. The point is he wants
> sarge.

Yep, sarge for newer ppc64 machine is not a good choice kernel-wise.

> > The best option would
> > be to do that, and then use debootstrap if he really wants sarge over
> > etch.
> Ok, I didn't know of that chance. But, what about the kernel? If he sets up
> etch, he will have the etch kernel. Then deboostrap will install its own
> kernel, wich, most probably, won't work. Does yaboot in sarge show a kernel
> menu, like grub does in the i386 arch?

more like lilo, yes.

Also, you should look at either :

  http://people.debiam.org/~luther/kernel

and install the udev from there, and then install the etch/sid 2.6.12
powerpc64 kernel, this should work on a sarge system. I was not able to build
the powerpc64 flavour in sarge, since sarge had no biarch compiler, maybe i
will give it a try for the newer 2.6.14 sarge backport kernels.

> Have you got any pointer to simple howtos about using deboostrap from an
> already installed system? Is it enough to say "deboostrap --arch powerpc
> sarge / file:///cdrom/"?

debootstrap sarge /path/to/chroot.

If you have mounted the new root partition in /mnt , you can do :

  debootstrap sarge /mnt

but notice that this does exclude some of the post processing done by d-i,
like creating users and setting a /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/fstab. So you
would have to cleanup by hand. Also it will not add the users to the default
groups.

Friendly,

Sven Luther