On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 12:12:25PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Hi, > > >On Friday 05 January 2007 18:17, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > >> Currently, the only &arch-title; subarchitectures that support CD-ROM > >> -booting are PReP and New World PowerMacs. On PowerMacs, hold the > >> +booting are PReP (with the exception of Motorola PowerStack machines) > >> +and New World PowerMacs. > > > >Does this mean that booting from CD is known to work for other PReP > >systems? > > I think that Sven Luther had contact to somebody who booted a RS/6000 140p > that way. But that's only hearsay, my 140p is currently refusing to boot > *at all*, I need to take it apart :-(. Those IBM boxes are such divas, > you don't boot them for a month and pooof, they won't boot anymore for > anybody.... > > That's why I only excluded the PowerStacks in the above paragraph - I am > sure that this class of machines does not boot from the daily installer > CDs, I've not tested other PReP boxes.
Someone indeed mentioned CD booting, but i didn't manage to boot Jens's 43P-140 from CD. There may have been some incompatibilities in the debian-cd options which cause problem when booting a prep box, compared to a newer chrp box, i am not fully sure i remember this correctly. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
