Installing SuSE 10.0 Comunity on a IBM 7043-140
We dowloaded the ISO to install from the net. We where unable to make the sistem boot with it. We tryed the following: mkdir testcd mkdir testcd/boot cp /cdrom/boot/zImage.prep.initrd testcd/boot mkisofs -prep-boot boot/zImage.prep.initrd -r -v -o test.iso testcd we burned the ISO and we are unable to boot our boot command line: boot cdrom:,zimage root=/dev/cdrom load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600 Any help will be appreciated Andres
On Thu, Oct 27, Andres Tarallo wrote:
cp /cdrom/boot/zImage.prep.initrd testcd/boot
mkisofs -prep-boot boot/zImage.prep.initrd -r -v -o test.iso testcd
boot cdrom:,zimage root=/dev/cdrom load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600
Where is the file '/zimage'? I bet you need only 'boot cdrom', or use the SMS to boot from CD. Maybe your iso is badly burned or the CD drive is broken? -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan
Hi Olaf !!! Kis Miklos suggested typing set-defaults in the prompt, prior booting . We booted, started our network installation. Then choose a mirror and it seems that it's not mounting root.ppc Olaf Hering wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, Andres Tarallo wrote:
cp /cdrom/boot/zImage.prep.initrd testcd/boot
mkisofs -prep-boot boot/zImage.prep.initrd -r -v -o test.iso testcd
boot cdrom:,zimage root=/dev/cdrom load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600
Where is the file '/zimage'? I bet you need only 'boot cdrom', or use the SMS to boot from CD. Maybe your iso is badly burned or the CD drive is broken?
On Fri, Oct 28, Andres Tarallo wrote:
We booted, started our network installation. Then choose a mirror and it seems that it's not mounting root.ppc
Do you have more details? On console 3 is the linuxrc output. if you have serial console, append this kernel cmdline option to see what linuxrc is doing: linuxrcstderr=/dev/console -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan
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