Re: Booting kernel on IBM RS/6000 7043 model140
Yesterday I tested the other floppy images (SuSE, Mandrake and Debian)
found on http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/43p/images but none of them
worked.
The SuSE and Mandrake images were the ones, that got the farthest in
the booting process:
RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000
RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000
memory keyboard network scsi speaker ok
0 > boot floppy:
loaded at: 01000400 01119FCC
relocated to: 00800000 00919BCC
board data at: 00C31370 00C37D7C
relocated to: 00910130 00916B3C
zimage at: 00809A20 0090F40C
avail ram: 00400000 00800000
Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/fd0 ramdisk_size=64738 load_ramdisk=1 rw
console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 text
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Memory BAT mapping: BAT2=256Mb, BAT3=256Mb, residual: 768Mb
Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c0400000)
Linux version 2.4.21-pre5 (ingvar@re) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315
(release)) #12 Mon May 26 19:39:36 CEST 2003
PReP architecture
IBM planar ID: 000000d5
MPIC at 0xfdbc0000 (0x3dbc0000), length 0x00040000 mapped to 0xeffc0000
On node 0 totalpages: 196608
zone(0): 196608 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/fd0 ramdisk_size=64738 load_ramdisk=1
rw console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0 text
OpenPIC Version 1.0 (4 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at effc0000
time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.621414 MHz
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 463.66 BogoMIPS
Memory: 772392k available (1620k kernel code, 792k data, 312k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
But they eventually got stuck here, with the LED error code 185.
I also downloaded the SLES 10 version you recommended, but it turned
out, that it doesn't include support for PReP machines.
The iso image can be found here:
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=ABUnQ9759c0~
Today I downloaded the openSuSE 10.0 ppc image also mentioned in your
mail. As it is quite old, it was harder to find.
A few links to the download can be found here:
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-ppc-GM-CD1.iso.705712128.0.0.html
I wasn't able to test it yet, but it seems, that it has support for
PReP machines.
In the evening I will see if it boots on my machine...
Anyway, this whole testing process is beginning to annoy me, so I
tried the NetBSD 5.0.2 PReP port, and it boots flawlessly, without any
tricks or magic.
Janos
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