Re: Updated installer images
Let's continue this on the corresponding mailing list.
On 09/10/2017 09:12 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote:
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote...
Please test and report back on the individual architecture
mailing lists
So far, the ride for ppc64 has been *extremely* painful. This is not
necessarly due to your efforts, but it feels a lot like nobody ever has
tried to set up Debian on a G5 using netboot.
Sad to hear that, I have multiple POWER5 based machines working with the
current state of the ppc64 port (using a NFS root FS debootstrapped from
a Wheezy NFS root FS on a G5 Cluster Node) using a netboot configuation
of yaboot - orginally used for Debian Wheezy on the said G5 Cluster Node
- that only needed slight adaptations for usage on POWER5.
But I have to admit, it was a long way until this worked a few years ago
IIRC.
So far (might be incomplete, and I'm both tired and fairly upset):
* Any reasonable documentation on this anywhere? No about how to set up
DHCP/TFTP server, I've done this many time. But what about which files
are needed, and how to provide a netboot-adjusted yaboot.conf, and
mostly: How to make yaboot make using it?
I believe the Debian Wheezy installation manual gives hints about how to
configure DHCP and TFTP servers for netboot, see e.g. [1].
[1]: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/powerpc/ch04s05.html.en
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* After a lot of trickery, the installer's vmlinux now gets loaded. At a
whopping 6 kbyte/sec (yes: six kilobytes). Just to remind you, kernel
and initrd take some 35 megabytes, and the G5 has already turned to
airplane mode. My neighbors will love me.
I don't see that slow loading of kernel and initrd you describe on my
POWER5, but haven't yet tested this on my G5 Cluster Node.
This isn't getting anywhere useful soon.
I have to disagree, the ppc64 port is totally useful for all my 64 bit
POWER and PowerPC gear, after Debian switched to Little Endian and
POWER8 as minimum for its POWER architecture. :-)
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