Hi all, My attempt to install woody on the IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 has still not succeeded.
I have now tried compiling a kernel image with a combined initrd and boooting using bootp/tftp as described in Rolf Brudeseth's HOWTO at http://www.personalized-story-book.com/debian/Woody_ibm_chrp_net_inst_HOWTO.html and have also found useful tips in a document referred to by Rolf, at http://penguinppc.org/~hollis/linux/rs6k-netboot.shtml However, the problem still persists: The only thing I can see on the screen is: Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.4.18.rs6kf50 linked at : 0xc0000000 frame buffer at : 0xde000000 (phys), 0xd0000000 (log) klimit : 0xc0212120 MSR : 0x00003030 HID0 : 0xf001c086 Note that 2.4.18.rs6kf50 is the kernel version including the EXTRAVERSION string I put in the top-level Makefile, so something must be going right... The two-line dot-matrix display on the machine's front panel reads: Linux/PPC 2.4.18 Have fun! The only improvement over trying to boot by floppy is that the machine no longer reboots after three minutes, which seems to indicate that the filesystem on the ramdisk is successfully mounted as the root fs. But I can't continue the installation, because I can't interact with the machine... Best regards, | George Karaolides Planitis Communications Ltd., | | tel: +357 22 45 65 00 Office 102, 11 Florinis Street, | | web: www.planitis.net Nicosia CY 1065, | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Republic of Cyprus. |
