On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:51:34PM +0200, Jens Kutilek wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Potato on a IBM RS/6000 B50. > I've upgraded to kernel 2.4.8, and am able to boot the system from > floppy. > It just won't boot from hd. > My partitions are like this: > /dev/sda1 PReP-boot 4M > /dev/sda2 /boot 8M > /dev/sda3 / 2G > /dev/sda5 swap > ... > > I compiled yaboot 0.8 with a patch from IBM > <http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/patches/ppc/yabo > ot-misc.patch.gz > and then did "dd if=yaboot of=/dev/sda1". use the yaboot package from debian sid and see /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples/yaboot.conf.rs6k for how to setup /etc/yaboot.conf, then run mkofboot. yabootconfig should also render a usuable config for those machines (though that is less tested). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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