Jens Kutilek wrote: > > Hi, > I have installed Potato on a IBM RS/6000 B50. > I've upgraded to kernel 2.4.8, and am able to boot the system from > floppy. > It just won't boot from hd. > My partitions are like this: > /dev/sda1 PReP-boot 4M > /dev/sda2 /boot 8M > /dev/sda3 / 2G > /dev/sda5 swap > ...
Hi Jens, > I compiled yaboot 0.8 with a patch from IBM > <http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/patches/ppc/yabo > ot-misc.patch.gz > and then did "dd if=yaboot of=/dev/sda1". You shouldn't need this patch, especially if you jump to a recent version of yaboot such as 1.1.1 or the like. > Now when I try to boot from hd it says: > Welcome to yaboot version 0.8 > Config file read, 4096 bytes > boot: > Loading kernel... > Elf32 kernel loaded... Looks like yaboot is working just fine. > ... and then nothing else happens. Do you have any numbers on the lcd display on the front of the B50? This looks almost like something isn't right with the kernel. I assume that you're using the same vmlinux for your default kernel in your yaboot.conf that you are dd'ing when you tried that. > I also tried copying the kernel directly to /dev/sda1, then it boots, > but doesn't find the root fs/init. > What can I do? I also tried quik, but it didn't work either. If you copy the kernel directly, you should set the OF variable boot-file to at least root=/dev/sda3 > Jens. Regards, Tom -- Tom Gall - PPC64 Code Monkey "Where's the ka-boom? There was Linux Technology Center supposed to be an earth (w) [EMAIL PROTECTED] shattering ka-boom!" (w) 507-253-4558 -- Marvin Martian (h) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/ppc
