Description of problem: The network install CDROM and the INSTALL DVD will not boot on IBM 7029-6E3. Booting works fine with FC10 but fails from FC11 and FC12 media. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-11-ppc-DVD.iso Fedora-11-ppc-netinst.iso Fedora-12-ppc-DVD.iso Fedora-12-ppc-netinst.iso How reproducible: 100% failed boots from FC11 media. 100% failed boots from FC12 media. 100% successful boots from FC10 media. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Power on to OpenFirmware prompt 2.boot cdrom,/ppc/ppc64/vmlinux 3.type "linux" at the yaboot prompt Actual results: Config file read, 309 bytes Welcome to the Fedora 12 installer! Use 'linux32' for 32-bit kernel. Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.14 (Red Hat 1.3.14-23.fc12) Enter "help" to get some basic usage information Default supplied on the command line: cdrom,/ppc/ppc64/vmlinux boot: linux Please wait, loading kernel... Read failed boot: linux64 Please wait, loading kernel... Read failed Expected results: Config file read, 309 bytes Welcome to the Fedora 10 installer! Use 'linux32' for 32-bit kernel. Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.14 (Red Hat 1.3.14-6.fc10) Enter "help" to get some basic usage information boot: linux Please wait, loading kernel... Elf64 kernel loaded... Loading ramdisk... ramdisk loaded at 04500000, size: 18778 Kbytes OF stdout device is: /pci@400000000110/isa@3/serial@i3f8 command line: ro memory layout at init: alloc_bottom : 0000000005757000 alloc_top : 0000000030000000 alloc_top_hi : 0000000040000000 rmo_top : 0000000030000000 ram_top : 0000000040000000 Looking for displays found display : /pci@400000000111/pci@2/pci@1/display@0, opening ... done opening PHB /pci@400000000110... done opening PHB /pci@400000000111... done instantiating rtas at 0x000000002fd0d000 ... done boot cpu hw idx 0000000000000000 copying OF device tree ... Building dt strings... Building dt structure... Device tree strings 0x0000000005858000 -> 0x00000000058593eb Device tree struct 0x000000000585a000 -> 0x0000000005862000 Calling quiesce ... returning from prom_init Phyp-dump not supported on this hardware Using pSeries machine description Found initrd at 0xc000000004500000:0xc0000000057568df console [udbg0] enabled CPU maps initialized for 1 thread per core Starting Linux PPC64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 11:46:31 EST 2008 ----------------------------------------------------- ppc64_pft_size = 0x0 physicalMemorySize = 0x40000000 htab_address = 0xc00000003e000000 htab_hash_mask = 0x1ffff ----------------------------------------------------- Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Linux version 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.ppc64 (mockbuild.phx.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 18 11:46:31 EST 2008 Additional info:
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