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
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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>
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I'm stuck here now. Doesnt look like its asking for
a ramdisk does it?
TIA,
azman
----- Original Message -----
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