Re: Linux on RS/6000 E20

[Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 23, Benny Siegert wrote:

> >>> 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 :-( ).

ok, that 2.4.12 is the current status for prep.
It should not freeze...


Gruss Olaf

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