Installation fails on Maple compatible firmware (ppc64)

Bug #113023 reported by Adrian
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Bug Description

Trying to install feisty on a ppc64 based system with Maple compatible firmware fails with:

ramdisk loaded at 01c00000, size: 7361 Kbytes
[ 0.000000] Starting Linux PPC64 #3 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:52:37 UTC 2007
[ 0.000000] -----------------------------------------------------
[ 0.000000] ppc64_pft_size = 0x0
[ 0.000000] physicalMemorySize = 0x80000000
[ 0.000000] ppc64_caches.dcache_line_size = 0x80
[ 0.000000] ppc64_caches.icache_line_size = 0x80
[ 0.000000] htab_address = 0xc00000007c000000
[ 0.000000] htab_hash_mask = 0x3ffff
[ 0.000000] -----------------------------------------------------
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-15-powerpc64-smp (root@adare) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #3 SMP Sun Apr 15 06:52:37 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-15.27-powerpc64-smp)
[ 0.000000] *** 0000 : CF000012
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] *** 0000 : Setup Arch
[ 0.000000] [boot]0012 Setup Arch
[ 0.000000] Found U3-HT PCI host bridge. Firmware bus number: 0->239
[ 0.000000] PCI Host 0, io start: 0; io end: 3fffff
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 524288
[ 0.000000] Normal 524288 -> 524288
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 524288
[ 0.000000] *** 0000 : CF000015
[ 0.000000]
[ 0.000000] *** 0000 : Setup Done
[ 0.000000] [boot]0015 Setup Done
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 517120
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram ro ramdisk_size=21744 -- video=ofonly console=ttyS0,19200
[ 0.000000] mpic: Setting up MPIC " MPIC " version 1.2 at f8040000, max 4 CPUs
[ 0.000000] mpic: ISU size: 124, shift: 7, mask: 7f
[ 0.000000] mpic: Initializing for 124 sources
[ 0.000000] mpic: Setting up HT PICs workarounds for U3/U4
[ 0.000000] mpic: - HT:07.0 [0xf0] vendor 1022 device 7460 has 24 irqs
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
[ 58.444705] Maple: Found RTC at IO 0x1070

This is on a JS20/JS21 with firmware based on http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/pa-slof/. This is in preparation for a new firmware release.

Just for the record: the installation of the Fedora development release works without any problems.

If anyone is interested in getting ubuntu running on the upcoming open source release of SLOF I am happy to help.

Tags: kj-expired
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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Adrian (adrian-lisas) wrote :
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It is still not working. The following is the console printout:

 Welcome to Open Firmware

  Copyright (c) 2004, 2007 IBM Corporation All rights reserved.
  This program and the accompanying materials are made available
  under the terms of the BSD License available at
  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

        ..`. .. ....... .. ...... .......
    ..`...`''.`'. .''``````..''. .`''```''`. `''``````
       .`` .:' ': `''..... .''. ''` .''..''.......
         ``.':.';. ``````''`.''. .''. ''``''`````'`
         ``.':':` .....`''.`'`...... `'`.....`''.`'`
        .`.`'`` .'`'`````. ``'''''' ``''`'''`. `'`
  Type 'boot' and press return to continue booting the system.
  Type 'reset-all' and press return to reboot the system.

0 > boot net
Trying to load: from: /ht/pci@2/ethernet@4,1 ...
 Bootloader 1.5
  Reading MAC address from device: 00:14:5E:9C:20:35
  Requesting IP address via DHCP: 10.32.11.104
  Requesting file "/tftpboot/p/s11b04" via TFTP from 10.32.0.2
  Receiving data: 149 KBytes
  TFTP: Received /tftpboot/p/s11b04 (149 KBytes)
  Successfully loaded

 Bootloader 1.5
  Reading MAC address from device: 00:14:5E:9C:20:35
  Requesting IP address via DHCP: 10.32.11.104
  Requesting file "/etc/yaboot.conf" via TFTP from 10.32.0.2
  Receiving data: 0 KBytes
  TFTP: Received /etc/yaboot.conf (0 KBytes)
Config file read, 555 bytes

 Bootloader 1.5
  Reading MAC address from device: 00:14:5E:9C:20:35
  Requesting IP address via DHCP: 10.32.11.104
  Requesting file "/boot.msg" via TFTP from 10.32.0.2
  Receiving data: 0 KBytes
  TFTP: Received /boot.msg (0 KBytes)
Welcome to Ubuntu 7.10!

This is an installation netboot image for Ubuntu,
built on 20070308ubuntu20.

The default option is 'install'. For maximum
control, you can use the 'expert' option.

To install only a command-line base system, use the 'cli'
or 'cli-expert' option.

If the system fails to boot at all (the typical
symptom is a white screen which doesn't go away),
use 'install video=ofonly', 'expert video=ofonly',
'cli video=ofonly', or 'cli-expert video=ofonly'.

Press the tab key for a list of options, or type
'help' for help.

************************************
If in doubt, just choose 'install', and if that
doesn't work, try 'install video=ofonly'.
************************************
Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
boot:
* install expert rescue
boot: install video=ofonly
Please wait, loading kernel...

 Bootloader 1.5
  Reading MAC address from device: 00:14:5E:9C:20:35
  Requesting IP address via DHCP: 10.32.11.104
  Requesting file "/tftpboot/p/vmlinux.ubuntu" via TFTP from 10.32.0.2
  Receiving data: 8100 KBytes
  TFTP: Received /tftpboot/p/vmlinux.ubuntu (8100 KBytes)
   Elf64 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...

 Bootloader 1.5
  Reading MAC address from device: 00:14:5E:9C:20:35
  Requesting IP address via DHCP: 10.32.11.104
  Requesting file "/tftpboot/p/initrd.ubuntu" via TFTP from 10.32.0.2
  Receiving data: 7408 KBytes
  TFTP: Receive...

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xteejx (xteejx) wrote :

You reported this bug quite a while ago and there hasn't been any recent activity. Is this still an issue? Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release (Jaunty)? Thank you.

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status: New → Incomplete
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kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor) wrote :

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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tags: added: kj-expired
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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