install on IBM PPC 604e

1998-09-04 Thread Czako Krisztian
Hello, I'd like to install Debian/ppc on an IBM PPC 604e machine (200mhz, 64m ram, scsi, floppy, cdrom). Currently there's an AIX 4.2.1 running on it with journal fs. My first problem is booting linux kernel from openfirmware prompt. I have an msdos format floppy with a ppc kernel called zimage o

Re: install on IBM PPC 604e

1998-09-04 Thread Czako Krisztian
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 06:03:02AM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > I'd like to install Debian/ppc on an IBM PPC 604e machine (200mhz, 64m > > ram, scsi, floppy, cdrom). > > Currently there's an AIX 4.2.1 running on it with journal fs. > > > > My first problem is booting linux kernel from openfir

Re: install on IBM PPC 604e

1998-09-05 Thread Czako Krisztian
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 11:06:45AM +0200, Czako Krisztian wrote: To answer my own question :) (and a new one) > http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/PowerPC/Install/zImage.ps2 with boot net I could start this image but the system crashed shortly. In fact, I haven't seen the "normal&

problems booting my ppc with linux

1998-09-07 Thread Czako Krisztian
Hello, I still have problems booting my IBM RS/6000 (ppc 604e, 200mhz) with Linux. I've tried the CHRP and PReP images without any success. The CHRP image's loader starts, gunzips, copies the OF device list then hangs, so the Linux kernel doesn't start. The PReP image hangs right after starting it