Re: installing debian on IBM 43P-150 (CHRP)
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote:
> Philippe Guyot said:
> > After searching the archives, I found from Sven Luther that
> >
> > 1) diskette is not supported now on chrp-rs6k boxes.
> > 2) shoul be ok whith cdrom from sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso
> >
> > So I made the cdrom and tried to boot via open firmware.
> >
> > I suppose I must launch yaboot then I typed
> >
> > boot cdrom;:\install\yaboot
> >
> > and after accessing the CD, the box booted AIX from the hd!
> >
> > should I try to boot directly vmlinux ????
> >
> > thanks for a pointer in the right direction.
> >
> > BTW, I am able to boot AIX install CDrom from OF (boot
> > cdrom;:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe.....)
>
> You can't boot from the CD's because they haven't been built to
> work on AIX firmware. To work on AIX firmware, they require
> the -U option to be specified in the mkisofs command.
Huh, and you tell us only now :)
Let's fix that, or will it break other subarches booting ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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