On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:38:00PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > Hi, > > [del] > >Yes, please, i would greatly appreciate it, preferably the 2.6.8 kernel too. > >Let' try to get this fixed before the sarge release, which is not so far off > >now. > > OK, 9 hours later I had a current sarge buisnesscard CD image, with > interesting results. I booted the standard kernel from the cdrom > with `boot cdrom:`, it came up and failed to load the initrd, so it died > on the spot as nothing could be mounted. It was detecting that I was using > a serial console.
You need to boot install/powerpc/vmlinuz-prep.initrd, not the vmlinux one. > Of course, I forgot to capture that session, so I did it again with logging > on in kermit. Then I could not boot anything from the CD, but I can still > boot fine from disk, so it's not a hardware problem. The LED displays F05 > after reading something from the CDROM in this case and the machine hangs. > Strange. > > I will try to boot via tftp, the firmware seems to be unable to boot > a specific file from CDROM, Ah, strange. That said, tftp is the prefered boot method for prep hardware. Friendly, Sven Luther
