[opensuse-ppc] Unable to boot setup CD on IBM JS20 Blade
Has anyone tried booting the Open Suse Alpha CD on an IBM Power PC JS20 Blade system. It appears that is does not work using the default firmware (Global Firmware) included with IBM systems. Here is what happens: 0 > boot cdrom 0 > boot cdrom - Elapsed time since release of system processors: 1 mins 47 secs E105 Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Request exceed total sectors Config file read, 1024 bytes Welcome Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13 (Red Hat 1.3.13-4.fc7) Enter "help" to get some basic usage information Default supplied on the command line: :1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm boot: :1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm Please wait, loading kernel... can't get <device_type> for device: :1,\suseboot\yaboot.ibm: Unable to open file, Invalid device boot: It Fails then loads the yaboot that is on disk (which is Fedora). Though notice the command line error. Now using SLOF firmware (which is unsupported). It does work and boots fine. But using Global firmware which comes with IBM Power systems, I am unable to boot the CD. Any ideas? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, Apr 20, Jerone Young wrote:
E105 Request exceed total sectors
Looks like a badly burned media. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:48 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, Jerone Young wrote:
E105 Request exceed total sectors
Looks like a badly burned media.
Actually those messages are coming from the redhat yaboot loader on the system. Since the prep partition is large. Nevermind that... this looks like it is not a problem with Open Suse ... but a problem with JS20 blades with Open Firmware. Reading more into this there are some old documents saying where they could not get "boot cdrom" to actually work and they ended up just booting from the network. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
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