SuSE 7.3 PPC install onto RS/6000 7025 F50
Hi, Recently I have purchased the above computer, no VGA card but an original IBM InfoWindow II 3153 connected to the 1st serial port. After having updated it's firmware and the firmware of it's Service Processor and having RTFMed lots of docs related to the install of Linux onto such a beast I am in front of the following problem: I have the original SuSE Linux PPC 7.3 According to the docs the second CD is CHRP bootable. I enter into OpenFirmware, Multiboot, Install from, CDROM The OpenFirmware recognize the SuSE Linux CD, I can choose SuSE Linux PPC 7.3 to install. While booting I get the an error similar to the below one:
chrpboot gunzipping (0x00010000 <- 0x00416470:0x00534a7c)...done
2908456 bytes 47376 bytes of heap consumed, max in use 40944 start address = 0x10000 instantiating rtas at 00600000 ... done copying OF device tree...done Calling quiesce ...
Unexpected Firmware Error: DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00200 at %SRR0: 0027c290 %SRR1: 00083000 ok
According to some infos from the Internet the bootable kernel is too big. Then I found the possibility to create boot floppies:
CHRP machines:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/floppy/zImage.floppy -install.chrp ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/floppy/ramdisk.flopp y-install.gz
Copy the kernel zImage.floppy-install.chrp to a DOS-formatted floppy
disk.
mount /floppy mcopy zImage.floppy-install.chrp /floppy/zimage umount /floppy
Copy the file ramdisk.floppy-install.gz with dd to a second floppy
disk.
dd if=ramdisk.floppy-install.gz of=/dev/fd0
Reboot your computer, insert the DOS-formatted floppy disk, and enter
the following at the OpenFirmware prompt:
boot floppy:,zimage root=0200
My version: boot floppy:,zimage root=0200 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 fake_initrd console=ttyS0,9600 I created the floppies, the RS/6000 seems to boot up, but when it asks for the root floppy the boot procedure stops even if I put the second one (containing the raw ramdisk) and press enter. The computer tell me that there is no root floppy in the drive and reboot after 180 seconds... Did someone meet this before? Maybe there is a workaround somewhere? -- ________________________ /"\ Vakvarju \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign vakvarju_at_spektrum-3d_dot_hu X Against HTML Mail / \
Ok so I have found the workaround. The only kernel which was able to boot is the 2.4.2 from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/2.4.2 zImage-2.4.2.chrp ramdisk.image.chrp-prep.gz As the kernel is too large to fit onto an FD I had to burn it onto a CD. The ramdisk was dd onto an FD. Then: boot cdrom:,zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 console=ttyS0,9600 When the kernel was loaded I took out the kernel CD and replaced with the first CD of the SuSE 7.3 PPC
From this point everything went as for a normal installation.
Cheers, -- ________________________ /"\ Vakvarju \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign vakvarju_at_spektrum-3d_dot_hu X Against HTML Mail / \
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