On Wednesday 01 December 2004 14:25, Leigh Brown wrote: > 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.
This is the whirl expected: Automatic boot: black screen and automatic reboot of the box. Manual boot: I had a look on the cdrom and found in \ppc a bootinfo.txt saying the script was \ppc\chrp\yaboot, just similar to what I have seen on the AIX CDrom. (bootfile.exe in lieu of yaboot). So boot cdrom;:\ppc\chrp\yaboot gives me: unexpected firmware error default catch code ff00300 $RR0 00c1b030 $RR1 00003030 and back to the OF prompt. I suppose in automatic mode this leads to a complete reboot of the machine, just as observed. I founded in /install/powerpc a vmlinuz-chrp.initrd dated today. I supposed it is the patched one. So boot:;\install\powerpc\vmlinuz-chrp.initrd "Unable to use memory at load-base" printenv load_base 4000 Just a question more: don't whe have to find a yaboot.conf in \ppc\chrp if it is the directory from which we intend to launch yaboot ?
