Hello I could not get a boot floppy to work whatsoever. It would be nice to have one as a rescue disk. It would also be nice if the boot floppy images on the debian website worked as well. Note, they might work on different rs6k's from mine. I only tested on a 150 and neither the ones on my old potato cdrom or from the debian website worked. That's why I went through so much trouble to build my own kernel.
I was not aware the newer boxes were sans floppies. Do they have zip disks now or are do they only support CD-ROMs as removable media? JD From: Rolf Brudeseth on 08/23/2002 01:32 PM To: John F Davis/Raleigh/[EMAIL PROTECTED], "debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> cc: From: Rolf Brudeseth/Austin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PowerPC kernel repository (was: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50) (Document link: John F Davis) > Hello > > It sounds good to me. I would like to contribute the rs6k effort on debian. > > We need to get boot floppies which work as soon as possible. Also, we need to > get working install cdroms. What do you mean by boot floppies? Do you mean the boot-floppies installer or bootable floppies? The former will be replaced by debian-installer on sarge, while the latter is not supported on all RS6000/pSeries systems. Some do not even have floppy drives anymore. I am currently trying to figure out how to make a single CDs that is bootable both on PREP and CHRP (IBM) systems. I have some anecdotal evidence that there is more to it than just pointing to the boot image from Open Firmware and/or setting up the /ppc/bootinfo.txt file correctly. Another issue is the 'prep-boot' and 'generic-boot' switches for the mkisofs command, which are used in creating PREP and CHRP bootable CDs, respectively; are mutually exclusive according to the man page. Rolf -- Rolf Brudeseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] pSeries System Engineering & Integration, IBM Enterprise Systems Group Austin, TX