Re: fedora 4 test 2 on ppc (dual proc g5)

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On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:04 -0400, Joe.Hoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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: 

Wrong list, fedora-test-list is where this should go

> opening display /pci@0,fd000000/NVDA,Parent@10/NVDA,Display-B@xxxx ok 
> copying 0F device tree...done 
> starting cpu /cpus/PowerPC,G5...failed: 0000000 

Don't have a g5, but that surely looks wrong

> Initializing fake screen: NVDA,Display-A 
> Calling quiesce ... 
> returning 0x01400000 from prom_init 
> 
> Invalid memory access at    SRR0:  00000000.01403b7c    SRR1:
> 10000000.000083030 

> Any suggestions?  Is this a problem with dual proc g5's?  Is there any
> way to disable SMP with a kernel parameter that can be passwed?  

max_cpus=1 might work. In fact, whats in there might actually be a
uniprocessor kernel, because there was a bug (or still is a bug) in
relation to the installation

So hit tab, and don't boot into linux (there should be another kernel there, its just not the default)
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