RE: Linux on a power 6

I run 16.04 on all my servers, and 18.04 on my desktop currently. I keep
the desktop up to date, so I will probably move that to 18.10 late
November after it has had some time to stabilize. Since this is just a
play project, I wanted to get as current as possible. This box is EOL in
March anyways, and we will be rebuilding our whole environment from
scratch, so it won't stick around anyways.

Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jack Woehr
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 9:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Linux on a power 6

16.04 is a perfectly fine cut of Ubuntu (says this Ubuntu-on-x64 user

who

later upgraded to 18).

I have looked into this some months back and I believe they did drop

big-

endian after that, though I'll check around later.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Kevin Bucknum
<Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The discussion yesterday got me interested in getting a lpar

running.

My main issues where figuring out how to get the disk correctly

setup

in vios and the hmc, finding the right distribution, and getting it

to

boot correctly. I managed to get the box to call home twice trying

to

get the lpar setup and the disk configured. That's what happens when
you only do this every 3-4 years. It looks like Ubuntu 16.04 is the
latest distribution with a PPC64 (not little endian) version. I

can't

tell if they dropped that version, or if it just isn't out yet. I

get

mixed signals from the posts I read. The boot issue was because

yaboot

expects its config file to be in /etc, but that isn't mounted at

boot time.

Copying /etc/yaboot.conf to /boot/etc/yaboot.conf fixed that

problem.

medtron@ppcubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

Release: 16.04

Codename: xenial

medtron@ppcubuntu:~$ uname -a

Linux ppcubuntu 4.4.0-116-powerpc64-smp #140-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 12
22:00:40 UTC 2018 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux

medtron@ppcubuntu:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0

cpu : POWER6 (architected), altivec

supported

clock : 4204.000000MHz

revision : 3.2 (pvr 003e 0302)



processor : 1

cpu : POWER6 (architected), altivec

supported

clock : 4204.000000MHz

revision : 3.2 (pvr 003e 0302)



timebase : 512000000

platform : pSeries

model : IBM,8204-E8A

machine : CHRP IBM,8204-E8A

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