Re: RS/6000

[David Welton <davidw@master.debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Cort Dougan wrote:
> I think this machine is a prep, not a chrp so you would need to dd the
> prep image onto the floppy.  What kernel were you trying?  I've never tried
> the system on one of these machines.

> } > The problem is that the machine doesn't seem to recognize the zImage
> } > floppy as a valid boot disk. Multiple floppies have been tried, so
> } > it's most likely not the disks themselves.

> } There is something tricky that isn't readily obvious: you need to put
> } the image on a DOS floppy, or at least that's how I got the F50 I'm
> } working on up.  Put it on the floppy as a file called ZIMAGE or
> } something, then from the OF, do: boot floppy:,\ZIMAGE

Err, "my" (Linuxcare's) machine is a CHRP, and it boots from the DOS
file ZIMAGE, I think the other machine is mmmm an F30?  But it's not
mine...

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