RS6000 model 44p 170
I'm looking for help installing linux on this system. I have seen many howto's but I do not have a boot server so can't apply them directly. I've got a set of debian 3.0r1 CD's and tried using SMS to change the boot order to boot from them but it just went straight to AIX (I saw no error messages). I then tried creating boot floppies (using dd under AIX) but the same happened when booting. I then tried using SMS to get to Open Firmware (of which I know very very little) and tried a variety of "boot" commands. All resulted in "Unrecognized Client Program format" and "state not valid" messages. Should the debian cd image created from debian-30r1-powerpc-binary-1_NONUS.iso be bootable? If so, how do I convince SMS to boot from it? If not how should I create a boot floppy that will work and how do I get SMS to boot that? Any help or assistance greatly appreciated, thanks in advance. Michael Cameron
RE: RS6000 model 44p 170
>
>I booted with a kernel image from SuSE. You can download one on:
>http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/rs6000/
>
>You can boot from network, as howto says. My dhcp configuration
>has a section as:
>
>host power3 {
># Desde el OpenFirmware de IBM 7044-140P:
># 0> boot net console=ttyS0,9600
>filename "/tftpboot/zImage.chrp-power3-2.4.16-SMP-3";
>hardware ethernet 00:06:29:04:30:ae;
>fixed-address my_ip;
>}
>
I found another image at
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/floppy/ and tried that.
This got further but hung with the following:
...ok
copying OF device tree... done
Initializing fake screen: display
Calling quiesce...
returning 0001 from prom_init
I'm downloading the image from your site just now. I'm not sure what you
mean when you say I can boot from a network, my network here consists of a
couple of laptops and the RS6000, none of which is a boot server. Do you
mean that I could boot from a public server (which is not appealing) or have
I misunderstood?
Thanks for your help,
Michael
RE: RS6000 model 44p 170
> >I'm downloading the image from your site just now. I'm not sure what you >mean when you say I can boot from a network, my network here consists of a >couple of laptops and the RS6000, none of which is a boot server. Do you >mean that I could boot from a public server (which is not >appealing) or have >I misunderstood? > I got the image but then realised it is too big to fit on a floppy so just burned a CD with only that file on it. I get a lot further, it boots and I see a penguin. Unfortunately I then get a kernel panic but this is still a major step forward, at least I can see some possibilities now. I think I might try Suse rather than Debian, does anyone know of iso images for Suse/PPC? Does anyone have a reference for Open Firmware commands? Michael FAT: bogus logical sector size 15370 FAT: bogus logical sector size 15370 attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03: rw=0, want=33, limit=12 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=08:03, iso_blknum=16, block=32 attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03: rw=0, want=65, limit=12 readsuper_block: bread failed (dev 08:03, block 32, size 1024) readsuper_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 08:03, block 8, size 1024) attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03: rw=0, want=36, limit=12 attempt to access beyond end of device 08:03: rw=0, want=36, limit=12 Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:03 <0> Rebooting in 180 seconds
RE: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops
> All these laptops have built in modems too. > But beware, some are winmodems.
RE: RS6000 model 44p 170
> >I am in the process of updating/simplifying my HOWTO and adding precompiled >kernels that can be downloaded from my web site. If you have a kernel that should work on my system I'd be more than happy to try it, and the updated howto, and provide feedback. Michael Cameron
RE: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops
>> > All these laptops have built in modems too. >> > >> But beware, some are winmodems. > >Not all of them ? > Possibly true, I haven't been shopping for a laptop for a long time though I thought that some Sonys and possibly some Dells had non-winmodems. Perhaps better advice would be to watch out that the particular (win)modem is supported for linux. I have a couple of thinkpads with Lucent modems and never did get them running but then again I didn't try to hard since a PCMCIA modem was not expensive and worked out of the box. Michael
