Hello everybody! I'm in the process of installing Debian Stable on a Power 740 system. I'm familiar with the installation on x86 systems and the installation process of Debian ppc thus looked familiar. I installed using the "install64" option. Disk partition was "guided - use whole disk, with separate /home". Installation concluded successfully but after a reboot yaboot loads and offers the choice of "Linux" and "old" - as per standard configuration I learned - but booting "Linux" fails: Config file read, 4096 bytes Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13 Enter "help" to get some basic usage information boot: Linux old boot: Please wait, loading kernel... Can't open device </vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1:0> /vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1:2,/boot/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device boot: The device however is valid - I can see it in the SMS menu - and I can successfully boot into the rescue system via the Debian cd ("rescue64") and subsequently chroot into my installed system, no problem. However, I can never boot straight into it with yaboot. Some information about the system: root@debian:/# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 6291456 sda 8 1 7168 sda1 8 2 1902592 sda2 8 3 1 sda3 8 5 262144 sda5 8 6 4115456 sda6 root@debian:/# cat /etc/yaboot.conf ## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer ## ## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!! ## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations. ## ## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of: ## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ boot="/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SAIX_VDASD_00f6c18700004c0000000130f6e6a926.4-part1" device=/vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1 partition=2 root="UUID=1017dfc6-257e-433f-9247-6676b732630a" timeout=50 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot enablecdboot image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img image=/boot/vmlinux.old label=old read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old root@debian:/# root@debian:/# mount /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) /dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) root@debian:/# ls -lR /boot/ /boot/: total 18364 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1214811 Jun 14 14:44 System.map-2.6.32-5-powerpc-smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93218 Jun 14 14:44 config-2.6.32-5-powerpc-smp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Sep 7 09:44 initrd.img -> initrd.img-2.6.32-5-powerpc-smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10216212 Sep 7 09:44 initrd.img-2.6.32-5-powerpc-smp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Sep 7 09:44 vmlinux -> vmlinux-2.6.32-5-powerpc-smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7233739 Jun 14 14:44 vmlinux-2.6.32-5-powerpc-smp root@debian:/# uname -a Linux debian 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 14 11:04:52 UTC 2011 ppc64 GNU/Linux I'm at a loss as to what the problem might be. The installation looks fine within the chroot environment, I just can't get it to boot. I also tried an install as per the wiki site (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/Debian%206%20on%20Power7%20LPAR/page/Start%20installation) with updating yaboot during the install as described but without lick. The only aspect where my install differs is with regard to the use of multipath. I use a plain old scsi disk and only have one VIOS in the machine. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks! -- Benedikt Wegmann benedikt.wegmann@gwdg.de +49 (0)551 201-1870 bwegman1@jabber.gwdg.de ......................... Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de <http://www.gwdg.de/> , E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510, Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Oswald Haan, Dr. Paul Suren Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen, Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 ......................... Die digitale Unterschrift dieser Mail kann anhand des Zertifikats des DFN überprüft werden: https://ca.gwdg.de/certs/
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