how to install a 7248-132?
Hi,
i want to install debian on a IBM 7348-132 (43P) and have some questions
about that.
- Install.txt is not covering this and is quite old ('99), it suggests
there is no ftp/http install method like there is on i386 port. Is this
true?
- How to decide wether my system is a PreP or CHRP system so i can choos
right boot floppy images?
- I'm familiar with rescue/root/driver floppies, what is "boot.bin" for
rsp. how to use it? Using it as "bootloader" for rescue?
thanx for any help.
Gerhard
Re: how to install a 7248-132?
Gerhard Kroder wrote: > - Install.txt is not covering this and is quite old sorry, found ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/doc/install.en.html, should have looked at it before answers almost all my questions. > - How to decide wether my system is a PreP or CHRP system so i can choos have been told it's a PReP by an insider ;-) Gerhard
Re: RS/6000
Nemeth Tamas wrote: > > Can anyone tell me howt to install debian on an RS/6000 140 type machine? > Do I have to boot from a floppy? Which one? How to boot from a floppy disk > on such a computer? > i'm starting soon on ppc too and collect some basic infos for my 7248-133 (i.e rs6000 43p). i guess yours is a simmilar machine and what you need is in http://www.debian.org/~porter/ for PPreP systems. if not, i'm out of info... gerhard
Re: RS/6000
Nemeth Tamas wrote: > > Can debian run on an RS/6000 43P-140? Please tell me! hey, you aked this half an hour ago. can't you wait a little? you should have an answer already, too. gerhard
RS/6000 43P-133 scsi timeout with boot floppies
Hi, finally i'm trying to get woody on my 43P-133, using current boot disk set (as of May 16). Though avaliable docs do not really explain/mention to use boot.bin before rescue.bin i got this starting;-). But during boot up from boot.bin floppy the system hangs in scsi timeouts, just short after "Now booting kernel". Error message looks like this (hand copied, so not quite exact): >SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out -resting >SCI bus is beeing reset for host 0 channel 0 >ncr53c8xx_reset: pid 0 reset reset flags=2 serial_numbers=456 >serial_number_at_timeout=456 with serial number counting continuously up and scrolling over the screen. During this, LED from CD-Rom is blinking. i changed origial disk scsi-id from 6 to 0 and also set floppy,disk and cdrom (id 3) as boot device in sms, in that order, but same problem. What's the problem here? Any hints? -- MfG Gehard Kroder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RS/6000 43P-133 scsi timeout with boot floppies
Alberto 'JCN-9000' Varesio wrote: > > Gerhard Kroder wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > finally i'm trying to get woody on my 43P-133, using current boot disk > > set (as of May 16). > > ... > > What's the problem here? Any hints? > > > > Maybe those images aren't the best ones :( > Have you tried other boot images ? gave potato images a try, same problem. No images for sid or unstable on regular debian mirror area. Do not really want to try other distributions, but if i can't get debian running, i'll give others a try ;-( > I managed to install my 43P-100 some time ago using boot images from > Ingvar Hagelund's site. > IIRC you can use that boot image and feed it with > the debian ramdisk. > This is a good document to read along with Debian ones ... >http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IBM7248-HOWTO/index.html known. > And this is a good list to ask questions too: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > And a site: http://www.penguinppc.org/ probably won't help for debian boot problems... -- MfG Gehard Kroder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help: wanabuild 7048-133 (PReP) boot floppies?
Gerhard Kroder wrote: > > Hi, > > finally i'm trying to get woody on my 43P-133, using current boot disk > set [...] > But during boot > up from boot.bin floppy the system hangs in scsi timeouts, just short > after "Now booting kernel". [...] > >SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out -resting > >SCI bus is beeing reset for host 0 channel 0 > >ncr53c8xx_reset: pid 0 reset reset flags=2 serial_numbers=456 > >serial_number_at_timeout=456 OK, since nobody could help (is this worth a bug report or where else to "complain", and if, is it release critical for ppc?), i'm thinking about building bootfoppies on my own. But there are some things i don't know, need some help. Esp. i'm not a developer, so lota things are not familiar to me, though i know to programm C on linux a little and use Debian for quite a while. Please be patient with me. Some basic questions on this: Neither Debian Install Manual for PPC nor IBM7248-HOWTO are very clear about what happens at booting (from floppy). Both tell to use provided disks. "carolina-image" IMHO just is a kernel to boot, which loads rootfs from next floppy. Actually, what is the real boot-from-floppy process, before loading kernel? Is a bootloader integrated, as with i386? (Why) is debian rescue floppy image not able to boot the systmen? What is boot.bin floppy image for or doing? Deb docs tell to use dd with bs=1024, IBM7248-HOWTO tells to use bs=36. Somewher i read about bs=512. Which is right/better, is this critical at all? Ok, now something on building. Afaik i need to setup a "cross compiling environment" to produce any of these boot-disks from my i386 woody. How do i do this? There is a kind of HOWTO for this around, isn't? Pleas give me a pointer. What files/sources do i need for building prep bootdisks? Any thing else to mention, things i'v forgotten? Last, but not least, i gave carolina_bootimage_2.2.18_with_fb a try, workes fine instead of boot.bin. Currently i try to continue install process with root.bin... I'll give a report on that on boot-disk mailinglist. TIA -- MfG Gehard Kroder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yaboot e.a. on IBM 7248-133 (PReP)?
Hi all, it's me again ;) How do i get woody booting from hd on this IBM PReP system? What happened until now: Gerhard Kroder wrote: > Last, but not least, i gave carolina_bootimage_2.2.18_with_fb a try, > workes fine instead of boot.bin. Currently i try to continue install > process with root.bin... After some weirdnesses with this, i finally have woody running on my 7248-133. I still use these "carolina..." image, booting with a floppy disk. I couldn't get the "make bootable" option get done what is should during base floppy installation. So i looked around in the later running system and found man pages for yabootconfig, ybin, mkoboot ea. i created with yabootconfig a base /etc/yaboot.conf, added nonvram and fstype=raw, as man page tells. i created a bootable "typ 41" partiton of 2 mb with cfdisk during installation as /dev/sda1, which should then carry the bootloader i tried to install with mkoboot. But it didn't work. When rebooting, the systeme want to eat the original SMS floppy disk. So, how do i make my PReP system boot from HD? Is yaboot good for this? -- MfG Gehard Kroder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
