> Sorry for replying again, but ... Quite alright. > Of course I've tried tens of images and tens of floppies. Everytime it > hangs when it is the moment of initalizing the console...
Hrm.. I know what the problem is, I know what the problem is. Serial console? GXxx card? What kind of graphics do you have in the machine? > Now I could try to boot with TFTP (if it's possible...) Should be possible. > The CHRP kernel images I have are bigger than 1.44 Mb so... no floppy boot. The CHRP kernel image I'm building SHOULD be <1.44M, but no garauntees. ;P > What about trying a HD boot, but how to configure it ? Just dding the > kernel image to a partition in AIX then indicating that partition from the > OpenFirmware boot command ? Excellent idea, but wrong way to do it.. actually.. hrm. I know how. The Big Cheat(TM). The 43P 140 has an ISA slot. Go find some cheezball ISA IDE controller, and a dinky hard disk. mkfs -t ext2 that dinky hard disk. Put the kernel and root filesystem on that. Tell the boot floppy to boot from /dev/hda1. I did a similar cheat, using a PC SCSI-UW controller, on an F40 PowerPC Server in the beginnings of development. Best of luck. :) -- -Phillip R. Jaenke, Head Unix Guru, Unicent Telecom 216-344-2649 x4268
