Re: introduction and squeeze/power64 installs wrong kernel

[Gasha <gasha@pie-dabas.net>]

Well, it is not so easy...
64-bit kernel loads, but it restarts.
For me it looks like loading of initrd stops at the same place, as if there is no "video=ofonly" parameter specified.
"Calling ibm,client-architecture-support..."

Plan B was to try latest testing/wheezy,
however latest build is unsuccessful,
and ISO from 2011-07-18 has bzip bug: #633782
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633782)

Any place to download other/older ISO images?

I'll try again experiments later...

Gasha

On 07/27/2011 01:30 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote:

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:24:44AM +0300, Gasha wrote:
  

Hi list,

just a short introduction...
i'm a long time unix/linux user, and finally decided to join some
linux development mailing lists.

recently we got new Power7 machine, and i tried
latest-squeeze-netinst.iso yesterday.
LPAR install. no luck, cannot boot fresh install.
after 2-3 hours of fiddling, i noticed, that Elf32 kernel is being
loaded, which ends with tons of errors.
    

Yes, there is a bug.  The test in the base-installer package is
absurdly specific; it recognizes only specific Power CPUs as being
64-bit, rather than matching on "power*", which would make more sense.

  

booting install64 and expert64 installs powerpc-smp kernel (32-bit)
rescue64 boots correct (64-bit) kernel.
    

Interesting...

  

tried to install manually 64-bit kernel, but it did not boot anyway :(
    

What error did you get?  Were you booting using yaboot?