On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:43:59AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > Could you test the prep kernel at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.4.22, and instruct us about : > > > > 1) The different method of booting from a prep system. > > > > 2) if there are auto-booting CDroms, or if you just have to enter the > > right value from the OF (in case you have an OF). > > > > 3) the output of your /proc/cpuinfo. > > > > 4) do you believe they are smp prep systems ? > > > > And if you would volunteer to test some of our debian-installers setups > > when they are ready, it would be real nice. > > Hi Sven, > > I know there are several RS/6000 PReP systems around, and that there
Mmm, i thought all RS/6000 where chrp, and using the chrp-rs6k kernel. > are people running Debian on them. The 7043-140 should boot okay on > the 2.4.22 kernel, and I'll try your test kernel when I get a chance, > on mine. There are also some other RS/6000 PReP models that work, but > require some kernel patches. They are: > > 7248-133 > 7024-E20 > 7024-E30 > 7025-F30 > 7025-F40 > 7043-240 > > There might be others. > > All these RS/6000's can boot off CD-ROM if the PReP kernel has been > configured using the mkisofs -prep-boot option. The 7034-240 and > 7025-F40 support up to two CPUs, but the PReP boot loader doesn't > know how to bootstrap the second CPUs on these machines. Mmm, So, to get the iso to autoboot on those, an option to mkisofs would be enough, but i guess this is not compatible to pmac autobooting, is it ? > I also have a Motorola PowerStack that is PReP, and it should work > with a stock kernel as well. There is support in the PReP boot > loader for an SMP Motorola machine, but I've never seen such a > beast. Ok. Thanks for your information, i will ask again once we have a somewhat more mature ubarch friendly owerpc debian-installer for people to test. Friendly, Sven Luther
