Re: Boot disket for IBM RS/6000 (fwd)

Wed 27. Jun 2001 15:27 :

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:29:26 +0200 From: Antonin Dostal To: "Ursula [iso-8859-2] Brückner" Subject: Re: Boot disket for IBM RS/6000

26. 7 2001 17:04 :

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I have sent you an article how to create boot-floppy. I'm not sure if this will help. That means I don't know if you have the CD1 to create the floppy. If not please write again. I don't know, if there's a uwe.hering too at suse.de but here's a Olaf Hering .

Bye from Ursel

Hi, I create this two diskettes and cut in diskette with zimage. But whit this diskette is it ditto ( no booting ). At first (after switching) is on display writing Power PC and step by step emerge a picture with a keybord, a diskette etc. (clearly check system). After that is on display picture a diskette with writing System Management Services. Now i used diskette with zimage, but nothing happened. I can't nothing do, when system is not after this step.

I have this PPC only two days ago ( for other kolege and is it my first PPC). This PPC is only with floppy disk drive (without disk and cdrom).

Also I know not as I find exact indication (I haven't manual).

This is all what I have. Would you be so kind and send me a problem solving? Thank you and good day.

Hi,

can you setup a netboot server? You need bootpd, tfpd, tcpd from packages tcpd.rpm, nkita.rpm and nkitserv.rpm, just look in ARCHIVES.gz on CD1. Dont use dhcpd even if it can do bootp, the client can handle it, it _needs_ the bootpd.

Edit /etc/bootptab, it should look like that: cantaloupe:hd=/:ha=006094E922FF:bf=zImage.prep:ip=10.10.1.166:sm=255.255.0. 0:gw=10.10.0.8:

cantaloupe should be the hostname, make sure the bootp server can resolve it via DNS or /etc/hosts ha is the hardware address, just check the syslog the unknown requests and edit the bootptab again and kill bootpd.

/etc/inetd.conf should look like that: tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -d 9 -c /tftpboot

restart inetd.

create a directory /tftpboot and put that file in it: http://www.penguinppc.org/~olaf/trashcan/zImage.initrd.prep

You can change the boot order with F5 or F4 or F6 or whatever Fn key drops you into the SMS menu.

I dont think that machine will work at all, at least the IDE models are not supported.

Gruss Olaf

But I come not even to prompt. There is not even command line. It stops in the moment when on screen is picture that I have to insert floppy with "System Management Services". Bye Tony -- Bc. Antonin Dostal developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: adostal@suse.cz Drahobejlova 27 tel:+420 2 83095 373 190 00 Praha 9 fax:+420 2 83095 374 Ceska republika http://www.suse.cz ---------------------------------------------------------------------