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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: November 20, 2024, 10:47:39 am »

My upgrade from F-40 to F-41 on a bare metal IBM LC912 (aka Boston) went OK, no problems booting after the upgrade. But I spoke with a colleague today and he reminded me some old(er) issues that were related to grub.cfg not being compatible with the parser in petitboot or grub-mkconfig failing to run (depends on petitboot / firmware version). I think that's what we are seeing here. If that's true, then the fix should be to recreate grub.cfg.

I agree in your assessment that it appears to be related to petitboot/grub.cfg.  Is there a help page somewhere that shows the proper way to recreate grub.cfg?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: November 19, 2024, 07:08:39 pm »

Not sure why my pics don't post directly, but I can't seem to attach files either.  I get this error.

"The upload folder is full. Please try a smaller file and/or contact an administrator."

My file is well under the limit.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: November 19, 2024, 06:28:02 am »

All Fedora versions on sda and sdd as seen in the screen shot fault with initrd.  Since that screen shot was taken I have used Timeshift on sdd to rollback to before the F41 install.  Same results.  I wiped out sda and installed F41 from scratch, same result.  Then I tried to install F40 from scratch on sda.  The results of this endeavor are in this screen shot.


https://ibb.co/xfVBny3

I will try to get system logs later today.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: November 18, 2024, 07:22:51 pm »

What exactly appears on screen? If you boot it from the BMC web interface, what appears on the virtual serial port output?

[img/]https://ibb.co/mqy2ps8[/img]

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 41 is out!

« on: November 18, 2024, 02:31:45 pm »

I can confirm MauryG5's issue.  When trying to update from 40 to 41 via console it would not install due to a "watchman" issue.  After being pestered via notifications to update I decided to give "Software" a shot at the update.  It installed 41 but now NO version of Fedora will load.  "Error loading initrd" is the error given.  Even after rolling back via Timeshift I get the same error.  On a side note that may be related, my openSUSE will start but is very slow and will not fill windows.  For example if I open any file browser I get the window outline but it is filled with the desktop image and no radio gadgets.

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Firmware / Re: Firmware 2.10 for Talos-II and Blackbird available

« on: February 16, 2024, 12:29:03 pm »

With Skiroot now at 6.6 does this mean Btrfs will function correctly?

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Necessary firmware for Navi14

« on: January 01, 2023, 10:47:06 am »

@MPC7500 If you blacklist the AST can you interact with Petitboot?

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird Down

« on: November 22, 2022, 06:49:05 pm »

@All

Still waiting on my Support Request.  In the mean time I have replaced my 13 year old CoolerMaster 600W Silent Pro with a shiny new be quiet! Dark Power 12 750W Platinum.  Happy to have the new power supply, but unfortunately my quandary prevails.

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird Down

« on: November 18, 2022, 08:45:50 am »

@MPC7500,

Sadly that troubleshooting workflow does not directly apply to my situation but I have started a support request nonetheless.  I have also ordered a new power supply as well.

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird Down

« on: November 16, 2022, 08:50:17 am »

@SiteAdmin Thanks for your advice.  It is greatly appreciated.

I reflashed the PNOR and no change.  Just to rule it out I then reflashed the BMC to no avail.

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird Down

« on: November 15, 2022, 09:32:03 am »

@MPC7500 Thanks for your reply.

I have an extra BCM flash rom and have swapped it out.  No change, still locks up at the same place. 
I have the boot sequence set to boot from USB first if present and have tried a Fedora flash drive with the same results. 
If I am quick I can hit "Enter" on the default "Exit to shell" I get the the flashing prompt with about 3 flashes before it locks up. 
I have noticed "STB: VERSION verification FAILED" followed by "IMA_CATALOG verification FAILED" and "Error loading ucode lid. index=202d1" during boot.
I also noticed later in the boot sequence "Bootkernel verification FAILED".

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Blackbird / Blackbird Down

« on: November 14, 2022, 12:37:37 pm »

Hello all,

Last week we had a large storm come through and took out our power for a 5 days.  Unfortunately my Blackbird was on when the power died.  Even more unfortunately it will no longer boot up.  It gets as far as where you choose which OS/kernel you want to use and it locks up.  Has anyone here run into this before?

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Applications and Porting / Re: MAME for Power

« on: June 27, 2022, 12:59:59 pm »

Hi markr87, sorry but how does Tekken turn to you? I tried the old 2 and it already runs very slow and therefore lacks optimization, just as I said in the previous posts, how does it turn to you? I oh noticed the poor performance on both Tekken 2 and 3 and both Street Fighter 3 ... They all run very poorly compared to the X86 counterpart ...

@MauryG5, I just tried Tekken 2 ver.B and can sadly report it is very slow, no sound and coin buttons not responding.  I didn't spend any time trying to figure out sound and buttons.  I compared it to a cheap i5 system I picked up to run an arcade cabinet I am building.  The i5 runs it at normal speed.

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Applications and Porting / Re: MAME for Power

« on: June 26, 2022, 11:24:46 am »

Has anyone been able to get NFL Blitz to work?  Just wondering if it is a no go or more than likely pebcak?

Does it not start? What issue do you see?

I haven't thoroughly tested it (and my ROM set is for an older MAME, so it's possible I'll have some fallout migrating it from my G5 to the POWER9) but basic behaviour seems to be fine.

To be more specific it is NFL Blitz '99.  I am just wanting to see how our Power9's perform.  It loads and gives me the normal cpu, sound, ect., press any key to continue display.  I press a key and get a brief message about how there is no saved state as this would be the first time it has ran.  The screen goes blank and that's all she wrote.  I know it will take longer on the first run but I have let it sit for hours to no avail.  Also of note Esc will not respond.  Requires a reset to get out of it.  My romset and chd files are of the same version as mame.  I get the same behavior with the latter versions of the tekken series as well.

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Applications and Porting / Re: MAME for Power

« on: June 21, 2022, 09:54:29 pm »

Has anyone been able to get NFL Blitz to work?  Just wondering if it is a no go or more than likely pebcak?