Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:07:23PM -0400, Amadeu Junior wrote:
> Hi ...
>
> I'm brazilian and my English is horrible !!!
>
> let's go...
>
> I'm trying boot a IBM RS/6000 E30 powerpc 604e-233Mhz, 512Mb RAM,
> 5*9,1Gb (SCSI), etc...
>
> I've been reading from http://home.tiscali.be/philippe_andersson/rs6000.html
> and
> http://home.tiscali.be/philippe_andersson/rs6000-instproc.html
> but it don't work. I can't make a workable floppy disk for this
> machine, it just don't boot.
>
> I used a zImage.prep from Leigh's patch...
>
> Anyone help me please... I'm confused !!!
>
> Is this machine prep or chrp boot?
It could be both, but the easiest way to distinguish it would maybe be to try
netbooting both of :
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd
or
http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd
The one which works, well this one is it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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