Power6 boot issue

Josh Barth josh.barth at rmscinc.org
Fri Aug 13 14:59:57 EST 2010


I have had issues getting to the yaboot.conf.  What is my best method?  I
can only seem to get the debian installer cds to boot by using expert64
which doesn't allow /target access until after base system install.  I am
using VIOS so I may be able to attach the volume to another Redhat LPAR to
view the contents, what are your thoughts?

Thank you,
Josh



On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Manoel Rebelo Abraches <
mrabran at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Can you post the yaboot.conf file?
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Manoel Rebelo Abranches
> Software engineer
> IBM - Linux Technology Center - Brazil
>
> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:13 -0600, Josh Barth wrote:
> > I have an issue getting a new Debian or Ubuntu install to boot.  It
> > seems to fail to load the initrd not quite sure what the deal is
> > seeing as how it loads fine during the install.  Here is the output:
> >
> >
> >
> > Please wait, loading
> > kernel...
> >    Elf64 kernel
> > loaded...
> > Loading
> > ramdisk...
> > ramdisk loaded at 02b00000, size: 10160
> > Kbytes
> > OF stdout device
> > is: /vdevice/vty at 30000000
> > Preparing to boot Linux version 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 (Debian 2.6.32-18)
> > (ben at decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-2) ) #1 SMP Sat
> > Jul 24 04:36:54 UTC
> >  2010
> > Calling
> > ibm,client-architecture-support...\
> > Elapsed time since release of system processors: 2447 mins 39
> > secs
> >
> > Config file read, 4096
> > bytes
> >
> > Welcome to yaboot version
> > 1.3.13
> > Enter "help" to get some basic usage
> > information
> > Default supplied on the command line: root=/dev/sda2
> > ro
> > boot: root=/dev/sda2
> > ro
> > Please wait, loading
> > kernel...
> > root=/dev/sda2:2,/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid
> > device
> > boot:
> >   Linux
> > old
> >    Elf64 kernel
> > loaded...
> > Loading
> > ramdisk...
> > ramdisk loaded at 02b00000, size: 10160
> > Kbytes
> > OF stdout device
> > is: /vdevice/vty at 30000000
> > Preparing to boot Linux version 2.6.32-5-powerpc64 (Debian 2.6.32-18)
> > (ben at decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-2) ) #1 SMP Sat
> > Jul 24 04:36:54 UTC
> >  2010
> > Calling
> > ibm,client-architecture-support...\
> > Elapsed time since release of system processors: 2448 mins 35
> > secs
> >
> > Config file read, 4096
> > bytes
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Josh
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