Well, finally SuSE Linux was installed on RS6000 (7044-170) The machine boots Linux with a Prep partition (lilo worked as well with yaboot). It works ok with console, some graphics cards wasn't recognize by the machine (as Diammond Trio 64+, S3 Virge, Trident Providia, etc).
I made a new partition (800MB) with base.tgz from Debian-ppc. Sadly I got a segmentation fault when I tried chroot :-( strace ends as: zeus:/ # strace chroot /debian execve("/usr/bin/chroot", ["chroot", "/debian"], [/* 43 vars */]) = 0 [...] open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=991984, ...}) = 0 read(3, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\24\0\0\0\1\0\2(\340"..., 4096) = 4096 mmap(0xfe51000, 1072764, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xfe51000 mprotect(0xff32000, 151164, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0xff41000, 69632, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xe0000) = 0xff41000 mmap(0xff52000, 20092, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xff52000 close(3) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ -- German Poo Caaman~o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/chilelindo.html "La historia no se lee, se escribe"