Install FC4 test2 on PPC - Dual Proc G5?
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Apr 21 19:24:00 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:44 -0400, Joe.Hoot at itec.suny.edu wrote:
>
> I just downloaded the fedora core test2 for ppc. I rebooted my PPC
> Dual G5. I was prompted by yaboot and hit enter to except the default
> kernel "linux." The kernel starts to load and then dies. I shutdown
> the machine and started it back up and at yaboot, typed linux nofb.
> It started to load again and then died again. Here is the output when
> it stops booting:
> Any suggestions? Is this a problem with booting dual proc g5's
This is a bug in anaconda installing the smp ppc32 kernel as we don't
have a kernel-smp.ppc64
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149618
Hit tab at boot: and you should have another kernel option something
like linux-up the ppc64 kernel (which has smp support in it). Then just
edit yaboot.conf appropriately.
Paul
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