I'm trying to get a Bull Escala ppc to run Linux. It's a 4 * 601 cpu, 512mb ram.
The machine starts a bump firmware. I set the bootlist to first boot flop, then cd, then tape, then harddisk At the moment I've the machine trying to boot over ethernet, it's getting a bootp answer, and it tries to tftp a bootfile. There it goes wrong, no matter what i feed to the server, after 2 tftpblocks is gives a 231 status (System failed to IPL from the device chosen by the operator.) I set the blocksize of the tftp server to various values, no luck. I tried tp pass blocksize parameter to the bootp server, still no luck. Any ideas somebody? (Using dd to make a boot flop did not succeed, the server says that it's not a firmware disk. So that's why i got trying to netboot the machine first). Gr.
