Philippe Guyot said: > After searching the archives, I found from Sven Luther that > > 1) diskette is not supported now on chrp-rs6k boxes. > 2) shoul be ok whith cdrom from sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso > > So I made the cdrom and tried to boot via open firmware. > > I suppose I must launch yaboot then I typed > > boot cdrom;:\install\yaboot > > and after accessing the CD, the box booted AIX from the hd! > > should I try to boot directly vmlinux ???? > > thanks for a pointer in the right direction. > > BTW, I am able to boot AIX install CDrom from OF (boot > cdrom;:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe.....)
You can't boot from the CD's because they haven't been built to work on AIX firmware. To work on AIX firmware, they require the -U option to be specified in the mkisofs command. I don't know if you have broadband, but if so, I have respun the latest sarge powerpc business card cd, so that it should boot correctly (and automatically). I would be grateful if you could give it a whirl. It's here: http://www.solinno.co.uk/leigh/sarge-powerpc-bc-lbb.iso If it fails to boot automatically, please try the manual boot command from the OF prompt, both with yaboot and the powerpc vmlinuz-chrp.initrd. I've also patched the vmlinuz-chrp.initrd files to work around the claim failed error. Cheers, Leigh.
