Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50
Hi all,
My attempt to install woody on the IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 has still not
succeeded.
I have now tried compiling a kernel image with a combined initrd and
boooting using bootp/tftp as described in Rolf Brudeseth's HOWTO at
http://www.personalized-story-book.com/debian/Woody_ibm_chrp_net_inst_HOWTO.html
and have also found useful tips in a document referred to by Rolf, at
http://penguinppc.org/~hollis/linux/rs6k-netboot.shtml
However, the problem still persists:
The only thing I can see on the screen is:
Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.4.18.rs6kf50
linked at : 0xc0000000
frame buffer at : 0xde000000 (phys), 0xd0000000 (log)
klimit : 0xc0212120
MSR : 0x00003030
HID0 : 0xf001c086
Note that 2.4.18.rs6kf50 is the kernel version including the EXTRAVERSION
string I put in the top-level Makefile, so something must be going
right...
The two-line dot-matrix display on the machine's front panel reads:
Linux/PPC 2.4.18
Have fun!
The only improvement over trying to boot by floppy is that the machine no
longer reboots after three minutes, which seems to indicate that the
filesystem on the ramdisk is successfully mounted as the root fs. But I
can't continue the installation, because I can't interact with the
machine...
Best regards,
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