Bob, I've been able to boot suse 9 succesfully on a RS/6000 H50 I bought second hand. I've had a problem with the bootloader when I installed the SMP (multiprocessor) version of the kernel, it gave me 'default catch' errors, but that was solved in the sp2 version. I haven't had the time to install suse 10.1, but if I find the time I'll try it soon. I can't really understand from your post how far you're getting in the boot process. Do you have only one physical disk? If not, did you alter SMS to start from the correct physical disk? What do you use as a console, serial connection or do you have a graphics card in the machine? What are the specific error messages that you receive? Let see if we can fix this, Erik Janssen. Bob Mariotti wrote:

With everyone's help I have been able to get SuSE 10.1 "loaded" to the point of rebooting. However, the only way I could get this far was to select the "Do NOT Install Boot Loader" option. Again, I've scoured the various SuSE sites (open and closed) and not seen definitively how to load a workable boot loader for this particular box.

Therefore, anyone with IBM CHRP experience (Olaf?) could you PLEASE give an experienced AIX guy and SuSE x86 supporter some detailed instructions on what/how to accomplish this? Quite frankly, installing on x86 was quite a "piece of cake" compared to this and I cannot believe that if Linux is to succeed on IBM Power boxen the distro that succeeds will be the one that overcomes this hassle. As Olaf's recommendation I did read through the PPC:Boot pseries info but it didn't exactly state how one would go about accomplishing this feat.

Anyone? Olaf?

Thanks all.

Bob

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