Hello list, Sorry to truble you. I meet one mistake in the process of OpenSUSE installation on IBM pSeries JS20 blade server, which has dual CPU PPC970. After I used proposal settings to config OpenSUSE 10.0-OSS, Yast show a message, "The proposal contains an error must be resolved before continuing". Then I check the settings (like Partitioning, Booting etc.) step by step and without any exception finding from them. Please refer to following message, +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ System * System: CHRP * Processor : 2x PPC970FX, altivec supported * Main Memory: 480 MB Keyboard Layout * English (US) Mouse * NONE Partitioning * Create partition /dev/hda1 (23.5 MB) with id=41 * Create swap partition /dev/hda2 (917.7 MB) * Create root partition /dev/hda3 with reiserfs Booting Configure a valid boot loader location before continouing. ...... * Boot Loader Type: ppc * Location: * Sections: Linux (default) * Added Kernel Parameters: quiet sysrq=1 Time Zone ...... Language ...... Default Runlevel * 5: Full multiuser with network and display manager +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So, I want to ask that which setting need I pay more attention? Dose hard disk have to be partitioned before system set up? Thanks for your suggestion. Best Regard Bill Yang
On Thursday 20 April 2006 20:42, Bill wrote: <snip>
Partitioning * Create partition /dev/hda1 (23.5 MB) with id=41 * Create swap partition /dev/hda2 (917.7 MB) * Create root partition /dev/hda3 with reiserfs
Booting Configure a valid boot loader location before continouing. ...... * Boot Loader Type: ppc * Location: * Sections: Linux (default) * Added Kernel Parameters: quiet sysrq=1
Time Zone ...... Language ...... <snip> So, I want to ask that which setting need I pay more attention?
Hi Bill, The line starting with "Configure a valid boot loader location..." is telling you to specify where the boot loader should be installed. The default location would normally be the MBR of /dev/hda. SUSE's default Boot Loader Type (on x86 architecture, anyway) is "Grub". Try these settings and post back with the results, OK?
Dose hard disk have to be partitioned before system set up?
No, the disk will be partitioned at the beginning of the installation. regards, Carl
On Thursday 20 April 2006 8:30 pm, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thursday 20 April 2006 20:42, Bill wrote: <snip>
Partitioning * Create partition /dev/hda1 (23.5 MB) with id=41 * Create swap partition /dev/hda2 (917.7 MB) * Create root partition /dev/hda3 with reiserfs
Booting Configure a valid boot loader location before continouing. ...... * Boot Loader Type: ppc * Location: * Sections: Linux (default) * Added Kernel Parameters: quiet sysrq=1
Time Zone ...... Language ......
<snip>
So, I want to ask that which setting need I pay more attention?
Hi Bill,
The line starting with "Configure a valid boot loader location..." is telling you to specify where the boot loader should be installed. The default location would normally be the MBR of /dev/hda. SUSE's default Boot Loader Type (on x86 architecture, anyway) is "Grub". Try these settings and post back with the results, OK?
This is ppc architecture. The disk partitioning must be done before this part of the install. YaST install for ppc can't partition at this time. http://en.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning for more info. http://en.opensuse.org/POWER%40SUSE for the main openSUSE ppc page.
Dose hard disk have to be partitioned before system set up?
YES for the ppc architecture. See above.
No, the disk will be partitioned at the beginning of the installation.
Not for ppc at this time.
regards,
Carl
Stan
On Thursday 20 April 2006 22:43, S Glasoe wrote:
This is ppc architecture. The disk partitioning must be done before this part of the install. YaST install for ppc can't partition at this time. http://en.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning for more info.
http://en.opensuse.org/POWER%40SUSE for the main openSUSE ppc page.
Thanks for the correction, Stan. Now I know better ;-) The link you provided discusses installing to Apple hardware. I did a little research on Google and found an SLES 9 installation guide for his hardware. Here's the link: http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles9/pdfdoc/sles-prep-ipseries/sles-pre... regards, Carl
On Thursday 20 April 2006 10:08 pm, Carl Hartung wrote:
Thanks for the correction, Stan. Now I know better ;-)
The link you provided discusses installing to Apple hardware. I did a little research on Google and found an SLES 9 installation guide for his hardware.
Here's the link:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles9/pdfdoc/sles-prep-ipseries/sles- prep-ipseries.pdf
regards,
Carl
Good one Carl. In my haste to reply I missed the IBM hardware versus Apple. Can't wait for the Mac install to be as easy as the PC with SUSE Linux. Stan
On Friday 21 April 2006 10:41, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thursday 20 April 2006 22:43, S Glasoe wrote:
This is ppc architecture. The disk partitioning must be done before this part of the install. YaST install for ppc can't partition at this time. http://en.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning for more info.
http://en.opensuse.org/POWER%40SUSE for the main openSUSE ppc page.
Thanks for the correction, Stan. Now I know better ;-)
Thanks to Glasoe for your reminding and helpful links. Yast install for PPC really can partition hard drive automaticly now. We can use default partition settings or change it as what we want.
The link you provided discusses installing to Apple hardware. I did a little research on Google and found an SLES 9 installation guide for his hardware.
Here's the link: http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles9/pdfdoc/sles-prep-ipseries/sles-pre...
Thanks Carl for paying more attention to solve the problem. The link you providing is really well. I have installed OpenSUSE on JS20 successfully. To solve the issue I met, we should not install bootloader in the process of setup. First, we should change the default setting about bootloader. In Yast main menu Booting->Boot loader Installation, we sleet Do not Install any Boot Loader. Then, I used the default settings for hard disk partition without any changes. After that, Yast will copy packages of CD1 to hard disk and reboot system. Because we did not install Bootloader, So we need CD1 to boot system after reboot. Enter installtion interface again, Yast will show one dialog box in Step 4, ask us we want to Installation or Update or Others operation. We choose item Others ->Boot the Installed System to boot system has been installed on disk. Yast will ask you to insert CD2, CD3, ......CD5. Once packages are copied, we will enter the system and need create /etc/lilo.conf and run "lilo" to install Yaboot. The steps described by me could be found from this link, http://en.opensuse.org/PPC_Installation_Issues Best Regards, Bill Yang --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 04:36, Bill Yang wrote:
Once packages are copied, we will enter the system and need create /etc/lilo.conf and run "lilo" to install Yaboot. The steps described by me could be found from this link, http://en.opensuse.org/PPC_Installation_Issues
Thanks, Bill! It's always nice to hear back about a successful installation and I *really* like your description of the procedure. I'm keeping a copy in my 'hardware' archive... you never know what you're going to run into, right? ;-) Hope you'll 'stick around' and become a regular. regards, Carl
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