Re: PReP booting

[Sven Luther <sven@powerlinux.fr>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:21:20PM +0200, Hermann Kaiser wrote:
> 
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Greg Trigg wrote:
> 
> >>Which RS6000 model is this ? a PReP one or a CHRP one ?
> >>
> >It is a 44P-170.  I'm 90% positive it's a PReP model.  It's power3.
> A 7044P170 is definitely a CHRP machine. Power3 is 64 Bit and all of  
> them are CHRP.

Indeed, its a chrp powerpc64, and the -powerpc64 kernels should work on
them, as well as the powerpc64 installer flavour.

I guess the kernel had a problem in etch on this hardware, did you try
it out ? Did you file a bug report ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther