Hi Luke I am happy to try it for you.
Do you know if there is a South African server that is hosting the PPC cd images. All the servers I looked at only hosts the i386 images. In South African local bandwidth is cheaper than international bandwidth. All the best Ulrich 2009/5/13 Luke Yelavich <luke.yelav...@canonical.com>: > 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: /p...@fff7f09000/i...@10/ser...@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 /p...@fff7f09000... done > opening PHB /p...@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 (bui...@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 > > -- powerpc ibm pseries 620 stopping after kernel load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196600 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
