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Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p



On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 02:05:01PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> That might be possible, but you need a PReP boot partition on your
> disk (type 0x41), to which you directly copy the kernel if memory
> serves.

Later releases put yaboot or grub2 on that partition so you actually
got a proper boot menu.

But yes, it simply loads and executes whatever binary is written raw to
that partition.  Could be a kernel, could be a boot loader.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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