On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:49:30AM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote: > Sven Luther said: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote: > >> Hi Sven, > >> > >> I'm sending you the boot info and the output of > >> /proc/pci. > >> The network card driver I need is: > >> Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] > >> 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] > > > > Well, the sym53c8xx_2 driver should work just fine for this boxes both > > scsi cards, and in fact, it does seem so. > > > > The pcnet driver is built modular, and should be included in the initrd, > > let me check ... Arg, no, it is not. I will fix this problem. > > fwiw just about every PCI RS/6000 and pSeries that I've ever seen has an > in-built pcnet32 ethernet card.
Ok. This is a strong incentive to make it builtin, which would also be needed for nfsroot systems and so on. > Any chance of a power3 kernel that I could try the installer on? Well, there are packages including the power3 kernels, and i believe i unpacked them at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/power3/2.4.25-2/ The problem with initrd, is that i still need to build and initrd with the power3 modules, which is something i am working on currently. Can you try the above kernel, and confirm it boots for you ? It does boot for B50 boxes. BTW, was it you who knew how to make bootable CDs ? Friendly, Sven Luther
