how to boot 43p-150 with gxt2000p
Hi,
I have tried the current boot disks of woody/powerpc to install
debian on a IBM 43p-150 machine, using
ok> boot floppy:,\linux root=/dev/fd0 init_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd
at the openfirmware prompt. Without success: It hangs after the
openfirmware says 'booting'.
When replacing the kernel with the latest suse chrp kernel from
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt
it started, at least, introducing itself in a new display with the
message
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Welcome to Linux 2.4.9-benh0-benh
Xfb: someaddress
etc.
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But then it also stopped. I know the gxt2000p is a problem, but
Suse recently mentioned that kernels above 2.4.6 with the openfirmware
driver should support it, see
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_hardware_ibm.html
Any ideas?
Gerd
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