Hi! >>> Kovacs Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05.12.2001 20.29 Uhr >>> On Wed Dec 5 09:48:20 2001 Benny Siegert wrote: >> I also had exactly the same problem. For me, it worked when using a >> 2.4 kernel. Do not even _try_ to use a 2.2 kernel with a RS/6000. > > Forgive my writing to you again, but could you please send me your > .config file and the kernel version you were using? > (and please tell me what patches to apply) > > I do not seem to get it done.
Nor do I :-). Seriously, I haven't got a kernel to fully boot yet. At some time during my tests, I installed AIX. When I switch on the RS/6K now, I get AIX boot messages, but no login prompt on the serial console. Oh, and the machine does not have an IP address set either, so I cannot even use telnet. And since then, it has been ignoring the boot floppies I stuffed into the drive, always booting the broken AIX. I am not an RS/6000 expert, and I don't know what to do next :-(. Back when I could boot from floppy, I used a zImage.prep written (with rawrite under Windows) to a disk. Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> provided me with some advice: > Dont try to run 2.2 on non-IBM PRePs. > Try http://master.penguinppc.org/~olaf/2.4.12/zImage.prep or > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/2.4.2/zImage-2.4.2.prep Unfortunately, both kernels did not work for me. For my machine, it is crucial that only one of the 53C8XX SCSI drivers be enabled. Later, one developer provided me a cross-compiling environment as a tarball to download. Unfortunately, the download always timed out. I think I will try to get a friend of mine, who is a PowerPC developer, to build a kernel for me. --benny.
