[ydl-gen] YDL 5.0.1 on an Xserve

Fri May 25 05:58:15 MDT 2007

Hey Hal,

I checked the md5sum and burned the disc twice, with the same results.
Has anyone else downloaded the CD (read: not DVD) version of the 5.0.1
and successfully installed it anywhere?

Joshua A. Richardson

(703) 272-1761 -- Office

(540) 383-9093 - Cell

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From: yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On
Behalf Of Hal Martin
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 4:39 PM
To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] YDL 5.0.1 on an Xserve

Sounds like the CD is corrupt. Try verifying that the SHA1SUM or the
MD5SUM for the image you have match that of YDL 5.0.1.

If they do indeed match, then I would try re-burning the images.

If you can get to the yaboot screen, that generally means it's going to
work with your computer. I remember before PPC linux supported the
latest, and last, PowerBook revision. Most of the PPC distros I tried
wouldn't even boot the computer.

Richardson, Joshua A. wrote: 

Additional info:

Before the boot prompt is displayed, the following comes up on screen:

/ht/pci at 5/ata-6/disk at 0:2,\\yaboot.conf : Unknown or corrupt file system

Can't open config file.

...

Boot:

Joshua A. Richardson

(703) 272-1761 -- Office

(540) 383-9093 - Cell

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From: yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On
Behalf Of Wujciak, James (US SSA)
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:53 AM
To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] YDL 5.0.1 on an Xserve

I looked through my notebook- it is not there... I'll keep looking
but....

I did the install on a system with a video card to be a headless system,
then I moved the disk to a system which had the NVRAM changed.

James F. Wujciak

James.Wujciak at BAESystems.Com

(973) 636-7555 (V)

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From: yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On
Behalf Of Richardson, Joshua A.
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:40 AM
To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] YDL 5.0.1 on an Xserve

I don't suppose you know what needed to be changed in the nvram?  I've
already changed the boot-device setting.  Is there something else?

Joshua A. Richardson

(703) 272-1761 -- Office

(540) 383-9093 - Cell

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From: yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On
Behalf Of Wujciak, James (US SSA)
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:28 AM
To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] YDL 5.0.1 on an Xserve

I had similar issues on older YDL revisions. I did not find a way to do
a headless install, (An install for a headless system: Yes) 

For the Headless install some items in the nvram had to be changed.

James F. Wujciak

James.Wujciak at BAESystems.Com

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From: yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On
Behalf Of Richardson, Joshua A.
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:15 AM
To: yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: [ydl-gen] YDL 5.0.1 on an Xserve

Hola all,

Has anyone tried to do a headless install of 5.0.1 on an Xserve yet?  I
have a dual G5 that I'm trying to put 5.0.1 on and it's giving me fits.
I get to the boot prompt, but it shows no kernels to boot from or to
install from.  I get this no matter what I type at the boot prompt:

:2,/vmlinux, Unable to open file, Invalid device

I've check summed my downloads, but I may re-burn disc 1 to see if it
makes a difference.

Joshua A. Richardson

Senior Systems Engineer

joshua.richardson at gd-ais.com

(703) 272-1761 -- Office

(540) 383-9093 -- Cell

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