Stew Benedict wrote: >On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Tirs Abril wrote: > >>Hi everybody! After almost six months working in a project abroad, I am back >>home and I'm continuing what I left, namely the installation of Mandrake >>Linux 8.0 PPC on an IBM RS/6000 43P-150. >> >>My question is very simple: Where do I begin? I have the two CDs, and none of >>them boot. I am afraid maybe they are intended for a MacIntosh BIOS and I >>have been looking for a bootable floppy image or something similar, but I >>couldn't find it. Can somebody put me on track? Is there anybody out there >>who has installed Mandrake PPC on an RS/6000 and wants to share experiences? >> > >We did have someone on the list who was working their way through this, >and I made some diskdrake changes to accomodate those machines, but they >dropped out so the project never finished, as I don't have hardware here. >They had rolled their own kernel/bootdisk to get the install kicked off. > That would be me :). The 43P-150 should be the easy one to get going. The only thing I see wrong is with yaboot. You will need a yaboot modified for the IBM machines(*) and paths in yaboot.conf must refer to "cdrom" instead of "cd".
A better approach to start with an IBM box would be to make a zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k (containing all.rdz-2.4.13-12mdkBOOT). The 43P-150 boots as chrp. Hit F8 on boot to get to the open firmware prompt. -todd (*) yaboot must have a "note" that declares that it runs in "real mode" which is how IBM OpenFirmware runs (as opposed to Macs which run in "virtual mode"). The trouble is that if you use a mac yaboot on an IBM box or vice-versa you can really screw up the firmware (pulling the cmos battery fixes it). So be very careful with yaboot! Likewise, use care to boot zImage.initrd.chrp-rs6k (it is ok to rename it of course), and *do not* try to boot this zImage on a mac. There is a bit of a catch-22 here. If you do get this all to work it might be worth putting the chrp-rs6k version of yaboot (or zImage) on the 2nd CD and tell everyone to boot the first cd on a mac and the second cd on an IBM machine. But I think that's still a long way off... :(
