Re: Help with a RS6k 7024 E20
Hi Tom,
Searching the net for specs on RS/6000 7024 E20 is the first time I here that it
might be PReP. On the other hand loading (via TFTP) PReP images it just (:-)) )
hangs while CHRP images generate error ! 0001000A ... Also, it tries to boot PReP
floppy while CHRP floppy gets ignored ...
About firmware update: I have updated from IBM site to the latest version for this
model and still no prompt :-((( Can you sugest an URL for firmware updates that I
might have been missing ?
Regards,
Adrian
tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> Adrian Dascalu wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone ANY experience booting linux on IBM RS/6000 model 7024 E20 ?
> >
> > Best of my knowlidge this is a:
> > CHRP
> > proprietary OF (no prompt!)
> > capabila de RIPL
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> I don't know that the E20 is CHRP... I would rather suspect it might be PReP.
> The Open Firmware on the machine isn't proprietary rather the early models of
> RS/6000 didn't have the option of f8 or 8 to get to a OF prompt. Tho for the
> model 140 if you apply an firmware upgrade the capability of an OF prompt was
> added.
>
> I do not know of anyone that has successfully run Linux on this machine. We
> don't have access to any E20s and given it's older hardware, we are not planning
> at this time on getting PowerPC Linux running on this model.
>
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/ppc is
> the URL to IBM's PowerPC Linux page if you are interested in what we're up to.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
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