Re: Bug#382129: Is now a good time to revisit installer not booting on OldWorld PowerMac beige G3?
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 10:34:37PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 16, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > >On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > >>On Saturday 16 September 2006 09:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > >>>Is there someone out there who will work with me to get a kernel
> > >>>that
> > >>>boots to run debian-installer on my beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)
> > >>>machine?
> > >>
> > >>I'd like to see that happen.
> > >>
> > >>>If not, I think it may be time to withdraw OldWorld PowerMacs from
> > >>>the list of hardware supported by the Debian Installer.
> > >>
> > >>Note that as I understand there are also problems booting the kernel
> > >>outside the installer (i.e. just upgrading an installed system), this
> > >>does not seem to be a Debian Installer issue, but rather a powerpc
> > >>kernel
> > >>or kernel configuration issue.
> > >
> > >Its actually a problem with the ramdisk generators and/or
> > >bootloaders, not the
> > >kernel proper.
> >
> > Actually, from the symptoms I'm seeing, it may not be getting far
> > enough to encounter ramdisk problems. (Not to say there are no such
> > ramdisk problems, just that what I'm seeing is not diagnostic for
> > them.) I gave fairly detailed notes in the previous bug report,
> > Bug#382129. Let me know if you want more information.
> >
> > If Sven is right, that leaves bootloaders.
>
> Are you using quik or bootx ?
>
> This patch :
>
> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6cdd2bdfb9e2449f1c8a0f729cdf9cfd733dd63f
>
> [POWERPC] Fix BootX booting with an initrd
>
> The bootx_init.c trampoline didn't properly add the ramdisk to the
> "reserve map" (list of reserved areas of memory), thus causing all sorts
> of failures when using BootX with an initrd. Also fixes a possible
> problem if the ramdisk is located before the device-tree passed by
> BootX.
>
> Might be of interest to solve this problem, which is why i suggested trying
> the latest 2.6.18-rc kernel before. Please try and provide feedback.
Actually, there was a new patch needed for quik, thanks to Christian and Ben
for investigating and fixing this.
A kernel .deb including the fix is available at :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/linux-image-2.6.18-rc7-powerpc_2.6.17+2.6.18-rc7-0experimental.1_powerpc.deb
Please test it and provide feedback to see if it solves your issue.
(not, that this is a second version, with benh's patch, instead of the first i
uploaded yesterday with Christian's tentative patch, please make sure to test
the new one (check the changelog to be sure :).
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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