Hello! >>> Jean-Francois Gobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24.03.2002 09.25 Uhr >>> >Help! I'm struggling with a 7024/E20, which doesn't want to boot either >off floppies or cdrom. I put the boot order to Floppy/CDROM/NET, when I >put some kind of disks into the drive, either it freezes or it just get >back to "startup prompt".
>Any idea ? Have I to upgrade my firmware ? Oh, so I'm not the only one out there with an E20 :-). You have a difficult task in front of you, but YMMV. I assume you have a model with serial console. When you power up the machine, you should see some lines like this: dskt..... OK mem...... OK etc. Before you hear the beep, press the "5" key on the keyboard. You should see the firmware menu. The topmost two lines contain the revision number. You should have firmware version VIC97216, dated 03/10/97. If the firmware is older, go to http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload2/download.html and download a newer version. Instructions are at http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload2/7024e20.html . To boot a kernel, you just have to take a zImage.prep file and dd it onto a floppy disk (e.g.: dd if=zImage.prep of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k). Then insert the disk while booting. If this does not work, you might try the following procedure: 1. Go to the firmware (as above). 2. Select point 1 (Select Boot Device). 3. Select "Other boot device" and then "3,5 Floppy". 4. Select "Boot". You will see a screen like the following: RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 STARTING SOFTWARE RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 PLEASE WAIT... RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 loaded at: 006132D0 006280F4 relocated to: 00800000 00814E24 board data at: 001E2E10 001E981C relocated to: 0080B13C 00811B48 zimage at: 0061E337 0076C274 relocated to: 00815000 00962F3D avail ram: 00400000 00800000 Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/sda3 At the moment, I have a stock 2.4.17 kernel. It boots, but hangs after loading the SCSI driver ("SYM53C8XX Version 2 SCSI Support"). It seems that this driver does not work reliably on PReP machine (someone else on this list had problems with it on a Motorola PReP box). Today, I made some experiments with the linuxppc-2_4-devel (bitkeeper) tree. But the disk would not even boot :-(. If you want, I can send you one of my kernels for testing. It would be interesting to see if you have any success. Regards, Benny Siegert. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
