Re: Powermac G5 won't boot headless?

[Alexandre Gauthier <supernaut@underwares.org>]

On Thu, 2006-12-10 at 11:15 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:10:03 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 10:59 -0400, Alexandre Gauthier wrote:
> > > But it never boots completely. Add a monitor, and it's fine...
> > 
> > interesting... I have a dual with a serial port, I'll do some tests. It
> > could be a yaboot issue.
> 
> The quad is pickier than the (old) dual for me. I have a monitor and
> keyboard plugged in on the quad for this reason, the dual (PM7,3) never
> needed it.
> 
> Alexandre, is your dual an old or new model?

Actually it is a 7,3 -- from what I gather.

supernaut@valkyrie:~$ uname -a
Linux valkyrie 2.6.17-2-powerpc64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:06:43 CEST 2006
ppc64 GNU/Linux
supernaut@valkyrie:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : PPC970, altivec supported
clock           : 2000.000000MHz
revision        : 2.2 (pvr 0039 0202)

processor       : 1
cpu             : PPC970, altivec supported
clock           : 2000.000000MHz
revision        : 2.2 (pvr 0039 0202)

timebase        : 33333333
platform        : PowerMac
machine         : PowerMac7,3
motherboard     : PowerMac7,3 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh
detected as     : 336 (PowerMac G5)
pmac flags      : 00000000
L2 cache        : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld

I never tried without the USB keyboard, but I think it doesn't really
matter.

Maybe this is some kind of firmware issue? What firmware does your 7,3
runs...? Maybe we can pinpoint the difference there...