RS/6000 43p 140 does not boot (SuSE 7.1)
Hello everybody. Did anyone manage to successfully boot Linux on an RS/6000 43p 140 ? I tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/7.1/unsorted/prep/43p_140/zImage.140.chrp and followed the instructions in the German SuSE manual (ie copied the image to an MS-DOS formatted floppy disk, renaming the image to "zimage" there). At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed boot floppy:,zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd I also tried using ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/kernel/BETA/deflt/zImage.prep and followed the instructions on http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/olh_ppc_43p140.html (ie copied the image as a raw disk image using dd). At the OpenFirmware prompt I typed boot floppy:,\zImage In BOTH cases, the symptoms are identical: The floppy is read (takes half a minute or so). The OpenFirmware cursor moves to the next line or the line after that. The system freezes (or reboots after a long time). (None of the IPL or memory messages ever appear.) So obviously, none of these approaches works for me. What is the difference between the images copied as raw disk images and those copied as files on an MS-DOS disk? Which approach is *supposed* to work? Both are declared as solutions for 140 43p. BTW: The firmware version of the machine I tried this on is TIG97251. Thanks in advance for any hints or solutions. Alexander Achenbach
On Donnerstag, 15. November 2001 21:36, Alexander Achenbach wrote:
Hello everybody.
Did anyone manage to successfully boot Linux on an RS/6000 43p 140 ?
Hi! Using the instructions on http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/ I succesfully got SuSE 7.3 running on my 43p 140. -- If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. -- A. J. Liebling
On Dienstag, 22. Oktober 2002 19:32, Roman Engelmayer wrote:
On Donnerstag, 15. November 2001 21:36, Alexander Achenbach wrote:
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