Comment 11 for bug 196600

Hi Luke

I tried install via latest Jaunty alternate PowerPC CD. It did not
work, see the output below. I tried Debian 5, which should be using
the same installer if I am not mistaken, and that installed
successfully.

Output:

Ubuntu PPC

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=/pci@fff7f09000/pci@b/scsi@1/sd@1,0
partition=0

boot: install64 console=tty0
Please wait, loading kernel...
install64:0,/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device
boot: install console=ttyS0
Please wait, loading kernel...
   Elf32 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
ramdisk loaded at 02300000, size: 5772 Kbytes
OF stdout device is: /pci@fff7f09000/isa@10/serial@i2f8
command line: ro ramdisk_size=8192 file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed
quiet -- console=ttyS0
memory layout at init:
  alloc_bottom : 028a4000
  alloc_top : 00000000
  alloc_top_hi : 00000000
  rmo_top : 00000000
  ram_top : 00000000
Looking for displays
alloc_down() called with mem not initialized
EXIT called ok
0 > ok
0 > ok
0 > ok
0 > ? DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00300 at %SRR0: 02106a30 %SRR1: 00003000
 ok
0 > help help on is not available ok
0 >

I hope this helps

All the best
Ulrich

2009/5/13 Luke Yelavich <email address hidden>:
> Have you tried booting the latest Jaunty alternate PowerPC CD? If you
> could try that for me, and let me know if it works, that would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> powerpc ibm pseries 620 stopping after kernel load
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196600
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “debian-installer” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “linux-ports” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: debian-installer
>
> I am booting from ubuntu-7.10-alternate-powerpc.iso and ubuntu-6.06.2-server-powerpc.iso on a IBM pseries 620 (7025-6F0)
>
> I start the install with boot parameters:
> install-powerpc64 console=ttyS0
>
> It looks like kernel loads and I can see all kinds of hardware detection etc. but the installer does not start.
>
> I tried the debian powerpc install, and it works correctly.
>
> Since they use the same installer, I thought that the ubuntu install should work.
>
> Here is an extract from the boot text:
> boot: install-powerpc64 console=ttyS0
> Please wait, loading kernel...
>   Elf64 kernel loaded...
> Loading ramdisk...
> ramdisk loaded at 02500000, size: 5627 Kbytes
> OF stdout device is: /pci@fff7f09000/isa@10/serial@i3f8
> command line: ro ramdisk_size=8192 file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed quiet -- console=ttyS0
> memory layout at init:
>  alloc_bottom : 0000000002a7f000
>  alloc_top    : 0000000030000000
>  alloc_top_hi : 0000000200000000
>  rmo_top      : 0000000030000000
>  ram_top      : 0000000200000000
> Looking for displays
> opening PHB /pci@fff7f09000... done
> opening PHB /pci@fff7f0a000... done
> instantiating rtas at 0x000000002ff59000 ... done
> 0000000000000000 : boot cpu     0000000000000000
> 0000000000000001 : starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000002... done
> 0000000000000002 : starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000004... done
> 0000000000000003 : starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000006... done
> copying OF device tree ...
> Building dt strings...
> Building dt structure...
> Device tree strings 0x0000000002d80000 -> 0x0000000002d8110d
> Device tree struct  0x0000000002d82000 -> 0x0000000002d91000
> Calling quiesce ...
> returning from prom_init
> [    0.000000] Starting Linux PPC64 #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:41:26 GMT 2007
> [    0.000000] -----------------------------------------------------
> [    0.000000] ppc64_pft_size                = 0x0
> [    0.000000] physicalMemorySize            = 0x200000000
> [    0.000000] ppc64_caches.dcache_line_size = 0x80
> [    0.000000] ppc64_caches.icache_line_size = 0x80
> [    0.000000] htab_address                  = 0xc0000001f0000000
> [    0.000000] htab_hash_mask                = 0xfffff
> [    0.000000] -----------------------------------------------------
> [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-powerpc64-smp (buildd@ross) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 22:41:26 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.46-powerpc64-smp)
> [    0.000000] [boot]0012 Setup Arch
> [    0.000000] Segment table for CPU 1 at 0xc00000000fffb000 virtual, 0xfffb000 absolute
> [    0.000000] Segment table for CPU 2 at 0xc00000000fffa000 virtual, 0xfffa000 absolute
> [    0.000000] Segment table for CPU 3 at 0xc00000000fff9000 virtual, 0xfff9000 absolute
> [    0.000000] EEH: No capable adapters found
> [    0.000000] PPC64 nvram contains 262144 bytes
> [    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
> [    0.000000]   DMA             0 ->  2097152
> [    0.000000]   Normal    2097152 ->  2097152
> [    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
> [    0.000000]     0:        0 ->  2097152
> [    0.000000] [boot]0015 Setup Done
> [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 2068480
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: ro ramdisk_size=8192 file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed quiet -- console=ttyS0
> [ 2113.260402] Failed to request PCI IO region on PCI domain 0000
>
>