On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:26:58PM -0400, Rahul Jain wrote: > > I have a p-server 640 at work that I'm trying to install debian on. > It _seems_ to be CHRP, but OF has info about prep too, so I don't know... > > The hardware: > 2 375 MHz POWER3 CPUs > an eepro100 connected to the network > a matrox g200 > 2 18GB SCSI hard disks > a SCSI CDROM drive > _no_ floppy drive > > The current software: > SuSE 7.1 booting via yaboot (installed with lilo??) lilo in this case is suse's reinvention of ybin. ybin supports the raw bootstrap partition chrp machines use, read the man page. > The desired software: > debian unstable running kernel 2.4.5(-xfs) > > The problem: > I can't figure out how to get it to boot off the debian cdrom. > at the of prompt, I've tried: > setenv boot-device cdrom (cdrom is in devalias as /pci@.../scsi@11/sd@0,1 or > some such) > setenv boot-image /install/chrp/linux (also tried prep) > boot > > I get something like "no valid PReP image found". Am I supposed to use a > boot-image of \\yaboot? \\yaboot is a Mac specific hack, it won't work on non-apple OF. a yaboot binary is at /install/powermac/yaboot im not sure if it works on non-macs the way its compiled though. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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