RE: Installing Debian on a RS/6000 Question
Christian,
I downloaded your kernel and write it with rewrite to a floppy.
When doing boot floppy, it read for a second the Floppy and does nothing.
then
I downloaded your kernel en the initrd.gz.
and installed tftpd32 ( for windows ) on another machine.
When I use " boot net bootpserverIP,kernelname,192.168.1.20(RS/6000) "
It says ... bad IP value,
when I use " boot net " it does somekind of search but then comes back to
ok>
Is there something I do wrong ?
Kurt
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Walther [mailto:cptsalek@gmail.com]
Sent: zondag 27 november 2005 14:09
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installing Debian on a RS/6000 Question
Hi there,
AFAIK the Kernel version 2.6 doesn't support this box. There are
numerous patches that might work with versions up to 2.6.7, but I was
unlike booting with such a kernel.
My F40 runs on a - still patched - 2.4.22 kernel. You'll definetely
need to netboot the machine, I'm pretty certain that it won't boot a
linux kernel from any other media.
You might want to check out the documentation and mailing list archive
found on http://www.solinno.co.uk/
The site is not only about the 7043-140, you'll find all the patches
necessary.
I compiled a kernel especially for the F40, you might want to check it out
http://cptsalek.de/debian-sarge-installation-on-a-7025-f40/
for more details.
Regards,
Christian
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