Re: Re: Booting openSUSE-NET-ppc-Build0003-Media.iso

Am 24.02.2012 03:42, schrieb Larry Stotler:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Andreas Färber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> After lots of Alt-E (don't show again), Alt-J (use this file) and Alt-N
>> (don't use this file) I finally got the installation running through
>> until it wants to reboot. After reboot the system is not bootable and
>> drops back to System Management menu and the boot options there too do
>> not recognize any bootable devices apart from CD-ROM and NICs.
>> Previously there was AIX5 on the disk and it seemed it was completely
>> repartitioned by the installer.
> 
> On your system, YaST probably just used the whole disk.  I've never
> used any of the POWER systems so I can't really help.
> 
> SLED 11(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) would likely have better
> support for your hardware. [...]

Our quest here is testing and fixing Factory, not running some
old-but-working version. :) Kudos to Dinar for getting it this far already!

So I am mainly in need of pointers how to get some of these fixed.

I verified that using ext4 and always choosing Alt+J for the checksums
did not help.

I notice that the CD that boots fine uses \suse\yaboot.ibm, whereas the
FAT16 boot partition uses just a yaboot file. Are there differences
between yaboot and yaboot.ibm maybe? I tried appending all kinds of
things in OF such as :1,yaboot without success, and the SMS menu is able
to boot fine from CD but not from disk.

0 > printenv boot-device
-------------- Partition: common -------- Signature: 0x70 ---------------
boot-device
/pci@800000020000003/pci@2,4/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0/sd@8,0:1,yaboot
/pci@800000020000003/pci@2,4/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0/sd@8:2
 ok
0 > boot  ok
0 > boot /pci@800000020000003/pci@2,4/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0/sd@8,0  ok
0 > boot
/pci@800000020000003/pci@2,4/pci1069,b166@1/scsi@0/sd@8,0:1,yaboot  ok
0 > boot /pci@800000020000003/pci@2,3/ide@1/disk@0 -
Elapsed time since release of system processors: 60 mins 35 secs
[...]
Welcome to yaboot version r22.8-r1190.SuSE
booted from
'/pci@800000020000003/pci@2,3/ide@1/disk@0:1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm'

The installer said the following:

Choose the root partition.

1) sda1 (203 MB, vfat, 'CE93D1C3-1)
2) sda6 (27 GB, btrfs)
3) sda7 (39 GB, btrfs)

> 1

*** Invalid root device.

Choose the root partition.

1) sda1 (203 MB, vfat, 'CE93D1C3-1)
2) sda6 (27 GB, btrfs)
3) sda7 (39 GB, btrfs)

> 2


Starting syslog services..done
Probing connected terminal...

Initializing virtual console...

Found a mlterm terminal on /dev/console (80 columns x 24 lines).
Setting up (localfs) network interfaces:
    lo
    lo        IP address: 127.0.0.1/8                                done
    eth0      device: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Co
    eth0      Starting DHCP4 client.

Then it hangs there and I have to do an instant poweroff via Advanced
System Management interface. The first system NIC was used successfully
for network installation before.

Andreas

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