On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:17:46PM -0300, Douglas S. Vieira wrote: > David Welton writes: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 06:38:01PM -0300, Douglas S. Vieira wrote: > > > > > The problem is that the machine doesn't seem to recognize the zImage > > > floppy as a valid boot disk. Multiple floppies have been tried, so > > > it's most likely not the disks themselves. > > > > There is something tricky that isn't readily obvious: you need to put > > the image on a DOS floppy, or at least that's how I got the F50 I'm > > working on up. Put it on the floppy as a file called ZIMAGE or > > something, then from the OF, do: boot floppy:,\ZIMAGE > > I followed instructions using dd command to create boot image from > ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/users/gdt/zImage-2.2.10 and ramdisk image from > ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/users/gdt/ramdisk_image.gz. Try doing what I said. Don't use dd, but create a *DOS* floppy disk and *cp* the files there. I have no idea if this is right for your machine but like I said, it did work for me!
> When I put disk boot image and turn on IBM RS/6000 I force floppy boot > using F5 key, but nothing happened. You need to get into Open Firmware. Read your manual for how to do that. Ciao, -- David N. Welton ( Circa mea pectora [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) multa sunt suspiria http://www.efn.org/~davidw ( de tua pulchritudine debian.org + prosa.it ) que me ledunt misere
