I know this was asked many years back ... but I thought I'd get an up-to-date answer.
I have an IBM 42T. It's a PowerPC but with microchannel (MCA). Is there
any way to make it useful for Linux? I have read that there is no MCA
support in Linux, I've read that the 42T won't work as a result. I've
Another update, More success
> An update (Sucess!!!):
> After jogging some people's memory I found out that this machine has a
> PCI token ring card (which I wasn't using) because the on-board
> ethernet went flaky. This certainly helps explain my intermitent
> network, and quite possibly the shor
> > > I am begining to believe that there is some sort of hardware problem with
> > > your
> > > box or it is an upgraded version which was a -140 in it's previous life,
> > > but my
> > > -140 is rock solid with Leigh's 2.4.19 kernel - once it's up, that is.
> > > I will leave it running tonight
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:39:41 -0500, Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:23:50 +0100 (MET), Ulrich Teichert
> > Could you try to format them before dd'ing on them, like fdformat
> > /dev/fd0h1440?
> > I am not sure if that will change anyth
> You definitely need to use the MS-DOS partition scheme. However, your
> boot partition looks a bit big. No larger than 4MB is what is normally
> recommended. There have been problems reported with too large boot
> partitions in the past, although I'm not sure if that will help in
> your case.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:23:50 +0100 (MET), Ulrich Teichert
> Could you try to format them before dd'ing on them, like fdformat
> /dev/fd0h1440?
> I am not sure if that will change anything, though.
Will do.
>
> I am begining to believe that there is some sort of hardware problem with your
> box
> I'll give 2.4.22 a try tonight.
>
> Thanks!
> MikeMartin
I gave Leigh's 2.4.22 a try. It gave me the same result with the
debian root disk:
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
FAT: bogus logical sector size 1981
FAT: bogus logical sector size 1981
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs f
ECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 05:03, Mike Martin wrote:
> > (Re-posting with shorter attachment to please the list gods. Sorry)
> >
> > > If there is such a deadline, why not consider to install first a woody
> > > (many successes exist) then upgrading
(Re-posting with shorter attachment to please the list gods. Sorry)
> If there is such a deadline, why not consider to install first a woody (many
> successes exist) then upgrading to sarge after ?
Ok... trying again with Leigh Brown's boot image and a woody root
floppy and a woody CD.
The conso
> > > An IBM 7043. It's a 43p-140 labeled as a 604e 332 Mhz.
>
> I suppose you meen 233 Mhz ?
I know 332 MHz doesn't sound right ... but I'm sure that's what it
says on the IBM nameplate on the front. I'll verify this tonight
> More different than that, 140 is more recent.
Have you got specs an
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:01:02 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> What exact machine do you have again ?
An IBM 7043. It's a 43p-140 labeled as a 604e 332 Mhz.
[snip]
>
> set
>
> minor is the partition, starting at 1, flag is the flag, (prep in this case)
> and on|off is o
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:05:35 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> There may be some problems with 2.6 kernels and pci irqs on prep. I will
> investigate this shortly.
There is definitely something strange happening. The image I used to
do the (nearly) complete install will no lon
#x27;m very close. If I can get the system to boot (really it needs to
boot itself - not netboot) I'd call this a success.
Thanks!
MikeM
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:15:13 -0500, Mike Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can boot with this image:
> http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/dists/t
I can boot with this image:
http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd
And things seems to go very well. Network configures, hard drives
partition, it dies at "Install the base system" with "The debootstrap
program exited
declare it useless and it'll go back in the closet. If
I can get anything on it I'm ok - It doesn't need to be 2.6.
Attached is /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages.
Mike Martin
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:53:10 +0100, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec
I have a 43p-140, It will netboot, start the installer and let be run
through the motions. It doesn't seem to be able to recognize the cdrom
or be able to set up the network. This puts a stop on the installation
pretty quickly. I can't seem to figure it out on my own. Can anyone
help?
Attached is
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