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mechanic wrote:I have been thinking about installing Deb8.

However I'm not sure where the initrd should go or what the command lines should look like.

Help!

P.S. xeno74. Deb7.9 and Mint 11 boot and run fine on 4.5 alpha. I'll get to rc1 soon.

1. From a USB pen drive:
   

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   CFE> ramdisk –z –addr=0x24000000 –fatfs usbdisk0:initrd.gz

   From a CF card:
   

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   CFE> ramdisk –z –addr=0x24000000 –fatfs cf0:initrd.gz

   You could also start it from a Debian DVD:
   

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   CFE> ramdisk -z -addr=0x24000000 -fs=iso atapi0.1:install/powerpc64/initrd.gz

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   CFE> setenv bootargs "root=/dev/ramdisk"

3. Loading the kernel
   
   From a USB pen drive:
   

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   CFE> boot -elf -noints -fatfs usbdisk0:vmlinux-XX

   From a CF card:
   

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   CFE> boot -elf -noints -fatfs cf0:vmlinux-XX

mechanic wrote:Deb 8 is installed on /dev/sdb1.
The supplied initrd.img is on cf0:
Kernel 4.5 rc2 is on cf0:

Now.......How do I get this thing to boot?

CFE> setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdb1"

CFE> boot -elf -noints -fatfs cf0:vmlinux-4.5

CFE> setenv -p MENU_2_LABEL “Debian 8”
CFE> setenv -p MENU_2_COMMAND 'set pmu -astate=A4 ; setenv bootargs "root=/dev/sdb1" ; boot -elf -noints -fatfs cf0:vmlinux-4.5'

xeno74 wrote:You could try one of these initrd.gz files to install it:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jess ... /initrd.gz

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stab ... /initrd.gz

mechanic wrote:Nope. Tried that several times already.
It gets to a point then just a blank screen with a blinking cursor. If I do Ctrl+Alt+F1 it looks like it stopped working at bringing up eth1.

I can login as root and shutdown -h now, but nothing else useful.

In var/log/messages the last entry is rsyslogd: exiting on signal 15.
The Xorg.0.log at the end shows several EE errors
No devices found
No screens found

The display manager log is showing the display server is stopped due to "Process 2629 exited with return value 1.

Think I'll try a re-install.

I'll be back. Thank You.

luigiburdo wrote: debian dont work with radeonhd in ppc.
only sid seems working but i dont tested it. with radeon hd works Mate 14, lubuntu 14.04,3 an mate 15.10

luigiburdo wrote: Alex , dont waste your time with debian . it is broken from RadeonHD side because Xorg 1.7 and radeon driver .
only sid is working for now and oldest (wheezy 7.6 and down)

mechanic wrote:Sounds like X is most likely the problem.

I tried reinstalling what I had but it still would not boot. The I downloaded the latest alpha 5 and installed that, it only gets to producing a command line but the screen is flickering so bad because the OS is running around trying to reload X so much that the keyboard is useless. I looked at some logs and they are just pages long.
Difficult to do anything without a working keyboard. F1, F3, all useless.

I think I'll wait a few weeks before attempting a new download, meanwhile Deb 7.9 is working just fine with Gnome and LXDE.

(There goes three days I'll never get back.)