Re: PPC64LE Install Issues

Thanks for the info Alex. This is a POWER7 LPAR running on a PS700
blade. I know this ppc64le is pretty cutting edge, so issues like this
are bound to happen. I wonder if that is why I couldn't get Ubuntu
14.04 ppc64le booting either (which also uses grub2 for LE, but yaboot
for BE).

I'll have to test out your yaboot idea when I next get some time to
play around with this. This was a new LPAR that I carved out, but
while trying to get the ppc64le working, I did install Ubuntu 14.04
ppc64 and I think I then scratched that with openSUSE 13.1 (or maybe
Factory) ppc64. In any event, I can get a working ppc64 install set up
and try bootstrapping from there.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 09.07.14 22:34, Dinar Valeev wrote:
>>
>> Yes, we've switched to grub2
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Kevin Adler <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> With that ISO, I'm getting:
>>>
>>> Platform does not support Client Program headers of class 2
>>>
>>> Detected bad memory access to address: ffffffffffffffff
>>> Package path = /packages/boot-mgr
>>>
>>>                        .----------------------------------.
>>>                        |  No Operating Systems Installed  |
>>>                        `----------------------------------'
>>>
>>> Looking at the ISO contents, it seems that the suseboot/ directory is
>>> gone and a bunch more stuff is under boot/ now. It looks like yaboot
>>> has been replaced by grub2 in this ISO.
>
>
> It looks like your OFW doesn't want to load a little endian grub2 binary.
> What a shame.
>
> But I bet you already have a working yaboot setup on that system, right?
> Could you please copy the "linux" and "initrd" files from the installation
> media into your yaboot boot partition and add entries for them in
> yaboot.conf?
>
> Maybe you also need to replace the yaboot binary with one that can load
> little endian kernels. Fortunately the iso you downloaded earlier did have
> such a yaboot on it, so you can just grab it from there :).
>
>
> Alex
>
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