Re: Installation - boot after installation fails
upgrade? how? i am using netinst.iso to do the install, and what is installed does not boot!
will try 2) when i have access. travelling/work keeps me away atm.
-------- Original message --------
From: Gasha <gasha@pie-dabas.net>
Date: 19/03/2013 15:23 (GMT+01:00)
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installation - boot after installation fails
Hi,
in short:
1) upgrade yaboot pkg from wheezy (at least 1.3.16)
2) /vdevice will not work, use device=/dev/sda
G
On 03/19/2013 03:23 PM, Frank Fegert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i had several issues in the past with Debian on IBM Power, please see
> the list archives if you have an archeological interest ;-) Some of
> those issues were firmware/microcode related, some were related to VIOS
> mapped disks and i also had a similar issue to the one your experiencing
> due to the rather old v1.3.13 yaboot used in Debian v6.0.x. I also could
> imagine, that you're missing the appropriate iSCSI driver in the initrd
> image. To rule out the mentioned yaboot issue, could you please try an
> install with a current snapshot of the Debian v7.x [1] installer image?
> This contains a known working yaboot v1.3.16.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Frank
>
>
> [1] http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:57:52PM +0100, Michael Felt wrote:
>
>> p.s. disk types tried: logical volume from a vgClient volume group, iSCSI
>> LUN (virtual "physical" disk).
>>
>> sizes: 10G and 12G (I regularly install AIX on 4 and 6G "disks").
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Michael Felt<mamfelt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 4 to 5 years ago I was only able to get Linux to boot, (Redhat, Novell,
>>> Debian) unless it was a physical disk. I have not tried that yet because I
>>> do not have an empty disk to supply. And if that worked I would just
>>> uninstall it as that is "too expensive" in terms of resources.
>>>
>>> I have tried the "install64/export64" options Guided LVM (and I choose as
>>> many partitions as possible) and the Guided "one partition" - recommended
>>> for new users option.
>>>
>>> The partitions are created, the install runs fine, but on reboot - nada.
>>>
>>> IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM
>>> IBM
>>> |
>>> Elapsed time since release of system processors: 28 mins 41 secs
>>>
>>> Config file read, 4096 bytes
>>>
>>> Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13
>>> Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
>>> boot: Linux
>>>
>>> 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: help
>>>
>>> Press the tab key for a list of defined images.
>>> The label marked with a "*" is is the default image, press<return> to
>>> boot it.
>>>
>>> To boot any other label simply type its name and press<return>.
>>>
>>> To boot a kernel image which is not defined in the yaboot configuration
>>> file, enter the kernel image name as [[device:][partno],]/path, where
>>> "device:" is the OpenFirmware device path to the disk the image
>>> resides on, and "partno" is the partition number the image resides on.
>>> Note that the comma (,) is only required if you specify an OpenFirmware
>>> device, if you only specify a filename you should not start it with a ","
>>>
>>>
>>> If you omit "device:" and "partno" yaboot will use the values of
>>> "device=" and "partition=" in yaboot.conf, right now those are set to:
>>> device=/vdevice/v-scsi@30000002/@1
>>> partition=2
>>>
>>> boot:
>>>
>>>
>>> That is all I get. I am willing to spend some time on this - but I do not
>>> know the "Linux" way these days.
>>> Clear instructions, clear requests for info (e.g., if you can jump out of
>>> the install and look at something, manual divvy if you prefer, etc..)
>>>
>>> just might be a few hours to days between responses as I also have regular
>>> work to attend to.
>>>
>
>
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