This is a BULL ESCALA T 450 from BULL, a RS/6000 CHRP style server with Dual RS64-III and 2048 MB memory. --- firmware details : BULL,Escala T450, Serial #0, 2048 MB memory RS64 PegaFlex CHRP OpenFirmware by BULL HN Italia (Pregnana) BE - Dual PCI - 2 CPU(s) found Please read the IDB document for this release Copyright 1999 Bull Worldwide Information Systems All Rights Reserved Portions copyright 1995, 1996 FirmWorks All Rights Reserved Release F0.05.07 built Thu Nov 16 10:32:11 NFT 2000 ---------- Firmware image available at : http://www-opensup.bull.com/firm/pega/FW_F0.05.07.bin readme file : http://www-opensup.bull.com/firm/pega/FW_F0.05.07.txt (this is really the lastest firmware. This is an old style server.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Only try to boot CD, whatever the kernel is. Actual Results: ramdisk loaded at 01d00000, size: 699 Kbytes can't set args OF stdout device is: /pci@fe0f0020/isa@1/serial@i3f8 couldn't open /packages/elf-loader command line: memory layout at init: memory_limit : 0000000000000000 (16 MB aligned) alloc_bottom : 0000000001daf000 alloc_top : 0000000040000000 alloc_top_hi : 0000000140000000 rmo_top : 0000000040000000 ram_top : 0000000140000000 Looking for displays found display : /pci@fe0f0020/display@6, opening ... done opening PHB /pci@fe0f0020/pci@5... done instantiating rtas at 0x000000003fffa000 ... done 0000000000000000 : boot cpu 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 : starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000001... start-cpu call big-endian for CPU # 1 of module # 0 failed: ffffffffffdc8328 copying OF device tree ... Building dt strings... Building dt structure... (nothing more after this...) Expected Results: a working system to perform install of gentoo of this server ^^
adding tgall@gentoo.org: already ask him about this in IRC channel
Currently we support only Apple and Pegasos PowerPC machines. I'm working on an RS/6000 port, but only for older PReP-machines (this is the only machine I have access on). I think I can resolve this bug as invalid, as the 2005.1-release will never support this type of platform.
