Bug 690430

Summary:	Tyan TN71-BP012: kernel do not boot
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Raimonds Cicans <ray>
Component:	InstallCD	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	minor	CC:	ppc64
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Raimonds Cicans 2019-07-22 08:17:01 UTC

Hardware: Tyan TN71-BP012 server (CPU: Power8, 10-core)

Boot media: install-powerpc-minimal-20190715T101002Z.iso

Tried kernels:
/boot/ppc32 - firmware rejects to boot 32 bit kernel
/boot/G5 & /boot/ibmpower - no any output after firmware passes control to kernel (hardware hangs?)

Tried kernel boot options:
console=hvc0
loglevel=7

Workaround:
1. install other distribution supporting PPC(64) architecture (Hmmm... It looks like only choice form major distributions is Debian and Ubuntu Server) on spare media
2. boot from spare media
3. install Gentoo PPC(64) from Stage3

Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2022-04-17 23:51:22 UTC

This bug got kinda lost... anyone still interested?

Comment 2 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2022-04-30 22:23:52 UTC

(In reply to Andreas K. Hüttel from comment #1)
> This bug got kinda lost... anyone still interested?

Seems not.