Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Wolodja Wentland
<wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 13:04 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote:
>> Hello List,
>>
>> I am trying to install Debian Testing on IBM eServer System p5.
>
> I can't really help you with your problem, but would like to point out
> that there is a mailing list for PowerPC [1], which might be worth a
> try. And there are a couple of hits on Google for the error (prom-init
> freeze) you get ... ;)
>
> Are you using the squeeze installer? If so, I would try the stable
> installer for the installation. Is there a special reason why you need
> the squeeze installer? You can easily upgrade to squeeze later on or
> oven install squeeze directly.
>
The only reason I used squeeze installer because I thought, since it's
latest.. it will have proper support for powerpc. I did google for
"prom_init" thing... but couldn't find a solution. :(
--
With Regards
Abhishek Amberkar
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