Re: Linux on RS/6000 E20

["Benny Siegert" <Siegert@klinik-schillerhoehe.de>]

>>> Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> 22.10.2001  22.01 Uhr >>>
> On Fri, Oct 19, Benny Siegert wrote:
> 
>> Okay, now I have got some boot messages, but they do not look very
>> good :-( (see attached file). It seems the linux kernel on the boot
>> disk does not cope very well with this machine :-((.
> 
> Dont try to run 2.2 on non-IBM PRePs.
> Try http://master.penguinppc.org/~olaf/2.4.12/zImage.prep or
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/2.4.2/zImage-2.4.2.prep 

I have tried the upper one -- dd'ed it onto a floppy and booted it,
using the parameters: "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
console=ttyS0,9600".

The problem is that it does not load beyond the SCSI initialization.
Boot log is attached (again :-( ).

regards,
Benny Siegert.