Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

[Benjamin Cama <benoar@free.fr>]

Hi,

Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Zsombor a écrit :
> Oct  5 14:11:33 yaboot-installer: chroot: can't execute 'mkofboot': No
> such file or directory

This is a packaging mistake, already reported here, and fixed in my git
repo. But the package is not up to date.

> I included the official 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 kernel. Should I compile a
> custom one?

Not needed, it's just a stupid mistake of mine.

> Retrying kernel-install on prep succeeded but the machine cannot boot
> from harddisk:
> 
> Elapsed time since release of system processors: 116 mins 52 secs
> DEFAULT CATCH!, exception-handler=fff00400
> at   %SRR0: 00000000c0000000   %SRR1: 0000000008003002
> Open Firmware exception handler entered from non-OF code
> 
> Client's Fix Pt Regs:
>  00 0000000000000000 00000000018fffe0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>  04 0000000000000000 0000000000c39a48 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>  08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>  0c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>  10 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>  14 0000000000c00000 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>  18 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>  1c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> Special Regs:
>     %IV: 00000400     %CR: 00000000    %XER: 00000000  %DSISR: 00000000
>   %SRR0: 00000000c0000000   %SRR1: 0000000008003002
>     %LR: 0000000000000000    %CTR: 0000000000000000
>    %DAR: 0000000000000000
> Virtual PID = 0
> PFW: Unable to send error log!
>  ofdbg
> 0 >
> 
> Do you have any advise? Maybe I missed something from the installer?

Wow, no idea. I'm just merging patches and adding packaging, but I'm no
expert in OF things. Did the previous yaboot (1.3.13a) work ?

Regards,
benjamin