On Wednesday 01 December 2004 17:00, Leigh Brown wrote: > Philippe Guyot said: > > This is the whirl expected: > > > > Automatic boot: black screen and automatic reboot of the box. > > > > Manual boot: > > > > I had a look on the cdrom and found in \ppc a bootinfo.txt saying the > > script > > was \ppc\chrp\yaboot, just similar to what I have seen on the AIX CDrom. > > (bootfile.exe in lieu of yaboot). > > > > So boot cdrom;:\ppc\chrp\yaboot gives me: > > > > unexpected firmware error > > default catch code ff00300 > > $RR0 00c1b030 > > $RR1 00003030 > > > > and back to the OF prompt. > > Ho hum. The yaboot shipped with the boot disk won't work on an > RS/6000. You could say these sarge cd's won't work *at all* on > an RS/6000 :-( > > > I suppose in automatic mode this leads to a complete reboot of the > > machine, just as observed. > > > > I founded in /install/powerpc a vmlinuz-chrp.initrd dated today. > > I supposed it is the patched one. > > > > So boot:;\install\powerpc\vmlinuz-chrp.initrd > > > > "Unable to use memory at load-base" > > > > printenv load_base 4000 > > Not sure about this one. I'll think about it. > > > Just a question more: don't whe have to find a yaboot.conf in \ppc\chrp > > if it is the directory from which we intend to launch yaboot ? > > My version of yaboot pulls it from /etc/yaboot.conf (which is present > on the CD). >
Ok. Hem. What do you mean by "my version of yaboot" ? The one in /ppc/chrp ? It is this one which traps. But originally from Debian I suppose. > Do you have a linux box that you can create your own CD images with > (using mkisofs)? That will be much faster than me creating new CD > images for you, although I'm happy to do so, if required. > I have a box whith mandrake 9, I suppose I can rpminstall mkisofs; I will need some training of course.... I am going to have a look on this. Cheers Felipe > Cheers, > > Leigh.
