Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:34:48PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > > Hi Alexander!
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> > > > > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most architectures.
> > > > >
> > > > > Again, I don't know if CD-ROM based installation is expected work on
> > > > > PReP. [5] doesn't contain any ISO images. I've tried [6] though that
> > > > > doesn't boot.
> > > >
> > > > Current images can found here:
> > > >
> > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WusbLcdmFSNxyemb5ZCzGZepjyHg_TePq9j0I3dx-OK7MeoAJf9g9blL5z9OH70U96Tn1LZK-4j8PLL_zOY62VdA4A$
> > >
> > > Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately doesn't boot either.
> > > Again, I am not sure if this is supposed to work or if I need a special
> > > boot floppy or something like that.
> >
> > I suspect it is hopeless, as far as I remember PReP support disappeared
> > when the ppc and ppc64 kernel trees were merged into the single powerpc
> > architecture.
>
> I would be perfectly fine with installing an ancient Debian release.
> Apparently that has worked some people in the past. So far, nothing
> booted, but that is most likely due to operator error. I just can't
> figure out what that error is. The PReP firmware isn't very chatty
> regarding what is happening.
That might be possible, but you need a PReP boot partition on your
disk (type 0x41), to which you directly copy the kernel if memory
serves.
Maybe the formware also allows net booting (bootp/tftp). This is how the
Motorola MVME machines for scientific instrumentes boot here at work.
Gabriel
>
> -Alex
>
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