The release notes stats that IBM pSeries machines, which has the POWER5 processors, are supported - great. pSeries machines can be used in three ways: 1) Stand alone as a SMP machine. 2) Using Logical Partitions with physical resources like real SCSI disks and Ethernet. 3) Using Logical Partitions with virtual resources like using ibmvscsi and ibmveth drivers. It is not clear in the release notes which modes are supported. I have just tried virtual resources - failed with unable to read package metadata, failure with a reference to repodata/comps.xml from anaconda Errno 256 I have just tried with physical resources - hangs loading a DAC960 driver, which is a RAID SCSI card. If you clarify which modes and hardware Fedora5 has been tested on, we might avoid many frustrations in Fedora users.
The release notes are wrong. I've used genesis, lpar (full system partition), and lpar with vscsi. As well as js20, js21. For the DAC960 bug, boot with linux nostorage, select your scsi driver and it should proceed - I'm trying to trace this issue (I'll add the bug number). Please file bugs against anaconda on specific hardware configuration failures - such as ibmvscsi and we'll try and reproduce. The comment was originally referring to rs6000 32bit, which is now supported also.
Paul N, I don't know anyone on the docs team who is using this hardware, so if you'd like to correspond with Luya to fix any problems, that would be appreciated.
Was this ever resolved? Blocing master tracker so this doesn't get forgotten.
I've added Paul N. and Jeremy to the CC list for this one since they're listed as the dev POCs for the Installer release notes beat. I don't know how applicable this note is anymore, and since I don't think any of our Docs editors have access to or experience with this hardware, they're probably best to comment or close.
And when you all have decided what the answer is, please update the content directly at: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Installer and/or http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/PPC (?)
Or if you are too lazy to update the wiki, I will update the wiki once both Jeremy and Paul N give more details. I confirm I never touched a IBM pSeries in my lifetime.
I don't see that this was updated before test4. There is a little time left to get this in before we go to final. (Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Schedule for details on deadlines.) The wiki beats are now editable by anyone in the EditGroup on the wiki, so if anyone subscribed to this bug wants to see this changed, step up and do it. Don't worry about being grammatically perfect, as the Docs team will take care of fixing your edits for you. The appropriate page is: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/PPC
Anyone with IBM pSeries confirm their system is working? This old bug should be closed.
After chatting with jwb, dwmw2 and jlaska our release notes are updated and this should ticket should now be resolved.