Re: installing sarge on Motorola PowerStack...
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:23:34PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sven Luther" <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:53:51PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Sven Luther" <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:03:43PM +0100, Johannes Wischert wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Sven Luther" <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> > > > > > > The only thing is that it can not install the bootloader... the
> > > > > bootloader
> > > > > > > should be copied to /dev/sda1 with dd but since i made automatic
> > > > > > > partitioning /dev/sda1 is / and so i don't think this is a good
> idea
> > > ;)
> > > > > but
> > > > > > > at least the system works...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Which boot loader are you speaking about ? Quik ? Yaboot ?
> Something
> > > > > > else ?
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > oh my fault... I don't use a bootloader but i simply copy the kernel
> > > zImage
> > > > > to /dev/sda1 and the openfirmware boots from that...
> > > >
> > > > So you would need :
> > > >
> > > > /dev/sda1 : /boot <- macos or vfat filesystem on it ?
> > > > /dev/sda2 : /
> > >
> > > i don't need a filesystem at all on sda1 since i copy the kernel there
> with
> > > dd if=zImage.prep of=/dev/sda1
> > > and then i can boot from openfirmware with "boot hdisk"
> >
> > Ok, you boot directly from the bare disk.
> >
> > It must be /dev/sda1, right ?
> >
> I did not test anything else.. but it might perhapse also work with an fat
> filesystem or even ntfs since these computers were thought to run windows
> nt...
>
>
> > I will check that partman knows about this. What is your box model again
> the machines is known under many different names... it's called Motorola
> Powerstack 604e most of the time... There exist two versions of it one with
> PPCBug firmware and one with OpenFirmware (which I have) as far as i know
> you can flash the firm and so change from PPCBug<->OpenFirmware... On PPCBug
> ones you can use Yaboot but i'm not completely sure...
Ok, thanks. Any relationship to the so named Carolina PReP boxes ?
> > ? Can you send me a /proc/cpuinfo output ?
> cpu : 604e
> clock : ???
> revision : 2.3 (pvr 0009 0203)
> bogomips : 398.95
> machine : PReP Utah (Powerstack II Pro4000)
> l2 cache : 512KiB, parity disabled SRAM:synchronous, pipelined, no parity
Thanks too.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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