Hi, Return for : From: WOL - Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on " How I got Debian running on my P43-133 " date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 01:48:19 +0200 >>>
>Just a little heads-up notice to the bootdisk people: > >My IBM P43-133 _requires_ the Carolina patch found at >http://www.amberdata.demon.co.uk/carolina/carolina.diff.gz to boot properly. >If the kernel isn't patched, as the Debian kernel isn't, the kernel floods >the display with SCSI timeouts and never boots. >Other than that, my machine also requires the E15 framebuffer enabled, >if it runs in 80x25, the display will fade in and out continously. > >My workaround was to stick a linuxppc kernel on a floppy and boot that, >and the use the debian boot disks to boot the rest of the setup. >It took a while, but now it's there. > >I might open up developer access to that box when I get more disk in it, >if it is interesting? (It's a 132MHz PPC and 192MB RAM) Now I works Debian on PowerSeries830. I make an image to install on IBM PRePs for myself. It contains a patch of "calorina" and "e15fb". Installer displays dialogs on screen properly. And I added "base" files on its installer, and make it bootable from CD-ROM. So it is big, 25MB or so. Maybe the image only bootloader works well, too. But the image have a doubt of SCSI drivers. On Tuesday, I can check it, and I can make more perfect bootimage for almost all PReP machines, both IBMs and Motorolas. If other peoples needs this, I will put it on some FTP. Or only you need this image, I send a mail to you with the bootimage. Best regards. ---------------------- Kaz Aoshima = Editor of the PReP station Material development, Faculty of engineering, Tohoku University, Japan E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #I would appreciate if you could give me suggestions for my impolite English expressions.
