Hi, Thanks for your response. I have a supported Matrox video card on the system. We have managed to get the kernel start loading, but it fails when its initialising the driver for the SCSI controller(ncr53c825a) . The messages got before the kernel stops loading are: ncr53c825a-0: rev 0x13 on pci bus 0 device 16 function 0 irq 23 ncr53c825a-0: ID 4, Fast-10, Parity Checking ncr53c825a-0: on-chip RAM at 0x8adff000 Are there any boot options through which we can get around the SCSI initialization part of kernel booting . We tried various options like nvram:n , mpar:n, specf:n etc., but these did not help. Please suggest. regards, __________________________________ R.Sreelatha IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd. Golden Enclave, Bangalore -17. Tel : +91-80-526 7117/2355 Extn : 2879 internet mail id : rsreelat@in.ibm.com Matthias Fruehauf <mfrueh@suse.de> on 07/09/2001 02:07:26 PM Please respond to Matthias Fruehauf <mfrueh@suse.de> To: suse-ppc@suse.com cc: (bcc: R Sreelatha/India/IBM) Subject: Re: [suse-ppc] need help on RS/6000 43P Model 140 On Mon, Jul 09, rsreelat@in.ibm.com wrote:

Hello, I am trying to install SUSE 7.1 for PPC on RS/6000 43P Model 140. However, I am not able to boot the kernel. The documentation at this URL "http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/olh_ppc_43p140.html" says that the kernel binary

CD1/unsorted/prep/zImage.140 should be copied to a DOS formatted floppy and loaded from the Openfirmware prompt using " boot floppy : , zimage".But each time the system hangs after reading the floppy and the kernel is not getting loaded. Can anybody tell me how i can get the kernel loaded? Or which kernel image to use?

First make sure, that the floppy is not damaged. Then have a look if the graphic is supported as Ferdinand mentioned. Another thing may be the Open Firmware. Make sure that you have the latest and greatest version on the machine. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards, Matthias Frühauf ------------------------------------------------------------ SuSE GmbH, Schanzaeckerstr. 10, 90443 Nuernberg, Email: mfrueh@suse.de Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------