Re: bootloader for RS6000 H50
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:40:19 +0200, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
>Thank you for the reply about the H50 vs the F50. Its good to have
>confirmation; I had verified with the vendor that the parts are
>interchangeabe and figured it would work.
>
>I'm a little confused on the boot loader. I got interested in using the
>RS6000 after reading the howto for the 44P. It and other documents have
>described having the first partition being a PReP partition on which the
>kernel is placed directly.
Yes, same technology (PReP partition with kernel) could be used with CHRP
machines, too. In fact, Fedora Core 5 linux does hard disk boot exactly through
a small (8mb) PReP partition. OpenSUSE uses similar approach, but they require a
bigger boot patrition (looks like initrd goes to this partition as well).
>
>Once I get the unit running with the stock kernel, since the machine is
>SMP I'll be recompiling the kernel anyway.
Most distributions install stock SMP kernel by default if they see an SMP
machine. It is not the case with OpenSUSE 10.1 only, to my experience, not sure
about Debian.
>
>For this CHRP computer, what are the boot options and which is best. I
>only run Linux so don't need any multi-boots.
Running kernel from small PReP partition, to my belief, is the best option.
Alex
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