On Thu, 13 May 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > The OF of my LongTrail works perfectly but i don't know how to set it up for > autobooting. Booting from floppy is not (yet) possible (for initrd) because > the kernel cannot read the floppy. So net or cd booting are the only choices.
assuming it's similar to openboot, set boot-device disk setenv autoboot true are you getting any specific errors reading from floppy? > Currently i wait for manoj's update for his kernel-package with my > changes. After that, compiling will be easier. But then i need > kernel-diffs for apus, pmac, prep and also mbx for the 2.2.x tree. > Which class is rs/6000, chrp or prep? no offense intended, but you'd probably be best holding off till i get my images/source done for the rs/6000 against 2.2.6 or 2.2.8. 2.2.8 after looking at the code, will *not* boot on any rs64 (i had 2.2.6 booting on single rs64 in 32bit mode). the problem is in cort's code; it's simply not rs64 ready. and barely 604e rs/6k ready. i will HOPEFULLY have this done by the end of tomorrow. i broke gcc early last week, and finally got it fixed today, so soon. very soon. as to chrp/prep, most are neither. s70's are chrp, but s70 advanced servers don't appear to be. h70's are chrp as well. f50's i still haven't figured out. *some* f40's are chrp. (only single cpu f40's from what i can tell so far.) what i really need is *physical* access to rs/6000's to tell. gotta get into the openfirmware via aix to figure out what platform it is. and then from there, it's generally very easy. btw, i am working on smp support.. i have dual on f40 non-chrp, but single on everything else still. give me a few months on that. ;) -Phillip R. Jaenke, Head Unix Guru, Unicent Telecom 216-344-2603 / 9a->~5p Eastern - PESTER ME!
