On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:08:47PM +0000, Miguel Figueiredo wrote: > A Quarta 02 Março 2011 13:40:22 Folkert van Heusden você escreveu: > > Package: debian-installer > > Version: 6.0.0 power > > Severity: important > > > > > > Hi, > > > > After installing debian 6.0.0 in a ibm power5 lpar (power platform; powerpc > > cd), the installer fails to install a bootloader (yaboot and prep both > > fail). The system won't come up then of course. > > Please provide more details. > Can you look into the installer log and also send a copy (gzipped) so we can > take a look? > > (/var/log/installer/syslog)
Based on what I found when setting up an IBM power6 box, yaboot 1.3.13 doesn't quite work on many IBM boxes, while 1.3.14+ should. 1.3.16 is currently in unstable, but didn't make it into squeeze in time. Perhaps using the newer version would work. Personally I ended up using grub2 instead of yaboot. I had to get a few patches at the time to fix a few things, and the installation is a bit manual since grub-install doesn't understand CHRP machines (only really powermacs), but I am rather happy with it. Also yaboot didn't have software raid1 support at the time (I think 1.3.16 does), and I needed that, so grub2 was much more suitable for me. grub2 also meant I could use ext4 for my filesystem. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
