Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems

To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Cajus Pollmeier <cajus@naasa.net>, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installer for power4 and power5 systems
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:38:12 +1100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20041220133811.GA29187@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com>
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References: <[🔎] 48AF5AA0-51A3-11D9-93B4-000D9338A2FE@naasa.net> <[🔎] 20041220125937.GJ4390@pegasos>

 
Hi,

> Why won't the 32bit power4 kernels boot on these machines ? They should, only
> the iseries really need a 64bit kernel.

The 32bit kernel does not have the pseries LPAR interfaces and so will
not boot on a partitioned POWER4 box or any POWER5 box.

Anton

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