Re: unable to boot Motorola Powerstack II

[Alex <kth5@archlinuxppc.org>]

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:03:22PM +0100, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I'm trying to boot Debian sarge 3.1 rc4 on an elderly Motorola Powerstack
> > II 604e (PReP/Utah). According to the Debian pages, this system should be
> > supported.
> >
> > I downloaded the current floppy images and the CD #1, but I can't boot
> > from any of these. Booting from floppy results in "unable to load disk
> > label", booting from CD outputs "could not load bootable image"
> > or something to that effect.
> >
> > Any ideas on that? Is it possibly a debian bug?
>
> Motorola Powerstack II works fine with sarge. The CD install method is not
> supported though, but the netboot install is needed.
>
> You need to download the <other-image>/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd,
> put it on your tftp server and netboot it with : boot
> enet:<server-ip>,vmlinuz-prep.initrd,<client-ip>

I can confirm the suggestion by Sven. The machine boots perfectly but 
just not from anything else.

Then again, I still haven't managed to get anything newer than 2.6.8 on it.


Cheers,

Alex