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 <email address hidden>:
> 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
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> 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: /pci@fff7f09000/isa@10/serial@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 /pci@fff7f09000... done
> opening PHB /pci@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 (buildd@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
>
>