Re: showstopper for debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso on POWER5 (p505) and iscsi disk
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:44:01AM +0800, Michael Felt wrote:
> Last march I started a thread - that with help - resolved the problem of
> installing from
> debian-6.0.7-powerpc-netinst.iso - and installed on a p505. downloading the
> new yaboot as part of the install (thanks to Lennart Sorensen for the
> hints/instructions that got me going) and I could install and boot!
>
> However, today I tried the debian-7.1.0-powerpc-netinst.iso and this is
> not successful - "out of the box".
>
> 1) entering "install" at the boot prompt brought me right back to the boot
> prompt, just pressing enter worked much better.
>
> 2) show stopper for an install on IBM POWER (p505) using vscsi for hdisk0.
> And again the "winner" is yaboot.
>
> ┌────────────────┤ [!!] Install yaboot on a hard disk ├─────────────────┐
> ┌│ │
> ││ No bootstrap partition found │
> ││ No hard disks were found which have an "Apple_Bootstrap" partition. │
> ││ You must create an 819200-byte partition with type "Apple_Bootstrap". │
> ││ │
> ││ <Go Back> <Continue> │
> └│ │
> └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>
> I had chosen the option "whole disk" - all in one - recommended for new,
> and it created two partitions only (#2 ext4, and #5 swap).
>
> Is my assumption correct that I will need to use manual and create an
> additional partition named "Apple_Bootstrap" _(for now at least) - and if
> so, is there a preferred disk partition # to be used?
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> p.s. a pointer to the bugs site is also welcome and I'll report and feed
> the bug report.
I don't think your IBM box needs an Apple_Bootstrap partition, but I might
be remembering wrong given after trying to deal with yaboot, I switched
to grub and had enough email exchanges with the grub develoeprs to get
grub2 working on the IBM boxes with software RAID. I really like that
setup much better.
We currently have both a p520 and a p710 booting of software raid
with grub2.
--
Len Sorensen
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