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Hi there,
I have been using and installing openSUSE on x86 for a very long time, this is
my first attempt to install it on a Genesi Pegasos box (G1@1GHz, 512MB).
I downloaded openSUSE-11.0-DVD-ppc.iso and burned it on a DVD and was able to
start booting from it, following the instructions on this Wiki page:
http://en.opensuse.org/PegasosQuickStart
However, the installer never comes up, the little spinning cursor justs stops
at some point and the system is frozen (can only be rebooted by a hard reset).
This is what I see on the screen, when booting from the DVD:
[SNIP]
Welcome to SmartFirmware(tm) for bplan Pegasos2 version 1.2 (20040810112413)
SmartFirmware(tm) Copyright 1996-2001 by CodeGen, Inc.
ALl Rights Reserved.
Pegasos BIOS Extensions Copyright 2001-2004 by bplan GmbH.
All Rights Reserved.
Auto-boot in 3 seconds - press ESC to abort, ENTER to boot: aborted
ok boot cd suseboot/inst32
ISO-9660 filesystem: System-ID: "LINUX" Volume-ID: "SU1100.001"
Root dir: " " flags=0x2 extent=0x17 size=0x1800
/
[SNIP]
I also tried to copy the inst32 image into the OpenFirmware directory and
booting it from there via a menu entry. Again, it seems to start booting (the
spinner is active for a while), but then stops without any helpful hint.
I stumbled over the following comment on the PowerDeveloper.org Forums - maybe
this is still the case for the final release as well?
'inst32' stopped booting in early 11.0 alpha versions, so I stopped trying it.
http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10978#10978
Has anybody been able to successfully install 11.0 from the DVD on a Pegasos
box? Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks!
Bye,
LenZ
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Lenz Grimmer