On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:47:39PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Well, I got one recently here in Spain. Shipping charges are fairly > > large (it's not exactly a light and compact machine). But the current > > dollar exchange rate helps ;-) > > > > Now I have not yet found the way to install Debian on it > > (it refuses to boot Debian's CDROM), but I have not had > > time to investigate either. > > It uses SLOF which should be capable of decent netbooting, so it should > be possible to either netboot yaboot and have it load the kernel and > initramfs, or maybe make a zImage with both included and netboot that.
Placing the debian (netinst) installer ramdisk and kernel on the /boot partition and booting it from there should work too (after adding it to the yaboot config). -Olof _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
