Re: installing debian on ibm 44p 270
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Bianchi Michele wrote:
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> hi! i'm trying to install debian on a ibm 44p 270 machine. it is a power3 64bit machine (any other details needed?). i saw that suse support it, but they says to use kernel 2.4
> as i understood the boot disks of woody are based on 2.2 kernel, and i get a "catch default" error from the openfirmware.
> does anyone know if it is available a boot disk with 2.4.x kernel?
> i'm trying to upgrade the openfirmware, cos i read on a netbsd faq that error could be caused by an old firmware. i'm trying to understand how to cross compile a kernel from a i386 machine for a ppc64, could be good?
>
> any ideas?
I don't think the kernel is your problem. OpenFirmware should be able
to load either kernel the same. Did you make floppies, or are you
installing from CD? Are you using potato? Woody would be better.
We don't have a the 44P in our list of successful prep installations,
but I assume it's a prep architecture. If you're successful, be sure
to let us know so we can add it to the list.
Did you look at the prep install instructions in the most recent woody
install manual (link in my .sig)? There was some recent work done. Also
check these list archives at lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc for recent
PReP discussions.
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