On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:59:17PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > Hello, > I've been trying to install a PPC Debian Woody on an IBM RS6000 > 7248-120 machine. Using the System Management Services floppy all the > hardware tests succeed and I can set the machine to boot from floppy first, > and then CD Rom. I tryed booting from the CD Rom, I get the prompt: > > Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 > > No matter how I change the root=/dev/fd0 line (I remember I tryed /dev/scd0, > /dev/sr0 and /dev/sdc... the CD Rom drive has ID 3 and there's no ID 2 device) > I get the following on the screen: > > SCSI host 0 abort (pid 4) timed out - resetting > SCSI bus is beeing reset for host 0 channel 0. > ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=4 reset_flags=2 serial_number=1 > serial_number_at_timeout+1 > > I get this message over and over again, with the "serial_number" and > "serial_number_at_timeout" values increasing at each cicle. > > I prepared the four boot disks out of the images found on the first install CD > Rom on > /mnt/cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.23-2002-05-21/chrp/images-1.44 > but when I try to boot from the rescue floppy, I am promped to insert the SMS > floppy and the machine reboots. I compared the floppy images against the raw > floppy devices, they are fine, no error is detected. I insert the SMS floppy, > run again all of the hardware tests, everything's ok. I also tried to boot > from the CD with the root floppy inserted, leaving the default boot prompt > unchanged: > > Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 > > Everythig goes as described above. > The file > /mnt/cdrom/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/3.0.23-2002-05-21/chrp/install.txt > says: > > 1. Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a PowerPC CHRP machine > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Not ready yet!!! Please add documentation. > > > > :-( > > > Has anyone had success installing Debian Woody on a 7248-120 RS6000 machine? > Or should I consider another distro?
I don't think you'll find support in any other dist; but I could be wrong... Here is one link: http://www.personalized-story-book.com/debian/Woody_ibm_chrp_net_inst_HOWTO.html Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) HOWTO by Rolf Brudeseth You might also try searching for RS6000 in the list archives. -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
