On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote: > Philippe Guyot said: > > After searching the archives, I found from Sven Luther that > > > > 1) diskette is not supported now on chrp-rs6k boxes. > > 2) shoul be ok whith cdrom from sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso > > > > So I made the cdrom and tried to boot via open firmware. > > > > I suppose I must launch yaboot then I typed > > > > boot cdrom;:\install\yaboot > > > > and after accessing the CD, the box booted AIX from the hd! > > > > should I try to boot directly vmlinux ???? > > > > thanks for a pointer in the right direction. > > > > BTW, I am able to boot AIX install CDrom from OF (boot > > cdrom;:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe.....) > > You can't boot from the CD's because they haven't been built to > work on AIX firmware. To work on AIX firmware, they require > the -U option to be specified in the mkisofs command.
Huh, and you tell us only now :) Let's fix that, or will it break other subarches booting ? Friendly, Sven Luther
