Thanks Sree, but I still ahve problem. What I did: 1) ra"wrote" the zimage to a floppy.. 2) boot /root=/dev/fd0..... like your instr, but the 43P did not read from the floppy (even tho in Sys Startup i set it so). 3) then I did this ********************************************************************************* memory keyboard network scsi speaker ok 0 > setenv real-base c00000 ok 0 > setenv load-base 200000 ok 0 > boot floppy:,\zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x400000 gunzipping (0x10000 <- 0x4062c8:0x4cba74)...done 1959648 bytes start address = 0x10000 checking display...copying OF device tree....................................... ...done returning 00010000 from prom_init IBM,7043-140: reprogramming the memory controller. vector: 200 at pc = c000e47c, lr = c000e484, msr = c1030, sp = c01732c8 [c017321 8] current = c0171460, pid = 0, comm = swapper mon> ********************************************************************************* I'm stuck here now. Doesnt look like its asking for a ramdisk does it? TIA, azman ----- Original Message ----- From: rsreelat@in.ibm.com To: Azman Salleh Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [suse-ppc] Problem installing on IBM 43P-140 Try this. Change in the System Startup setting to make the floppy as first bootable drive on the system. Use raw- write to write the zimage to the boot disk. Then type boot /root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000. at the open firmware prompt. Sreelatha I have prepared the following floppies: 1) Boot disk - I formatted 1.44MB floppy from my Win98 PC, then copied ftp.suse.com's zImage.140.(renamed as zimage)to it. 2) ramdisk - I used rawrite to write into 2nd floppy from ftp.suse.com's ramdisk.image.deflt.gz I updated 43P firmware to be TIG01150 successfully. From the 0> prompt, I issued boot floppy:,\zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 I got back the 0> prompt; and the 43P's floppy show that it's reading the boot disk. But nothing else came out even after 1/2 hour. THe floppy drive kept reading. I tried again without success. THis time, I preceded boot floppy with "setenv real-base c00000" and "setenv load-base 20000". I never got the phase where it asks for the RAMDISK. pls help. thanks, azman