Re: installing debian on ibm 44p 270
El mar, 28-05-2002 a las 16:08, Chris Tillman escribió:
> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:42:30PM +0200, Bianchi Michele wrote:
> >
> > 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.
In this case the kernel is very important. Only 2.4 (for now) can
boot 44P 270. AFAIR, Rolf Brudeseth is working (or trying) in
a kernel-2.2 boot image.
> 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.
44P is CHRP64, not PReP.
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