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Re: installing debian on IBM 43P-150 (CHRP)



Sven Luther said:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:25:46PM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote:
[...]
>> 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 :)

No :-)

http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/01/msg01031.html

> Let's fix that, or will it break other subarches booting ?

I don't believe so, but testing might be an idea ;-)
Can we also add /ppc/bootinfo.txt onto the image?  This will
allow RS/6000's to autoboot, and, on newer ones, to display a
nice message indicating what O/S is on the CD.



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