Adam, He's booting from the HMC CD drive. The .ins file is used by the HMC to locate the other files when IPLing, as well as what storage addresses to load them into.
Maciek, where did you get the debian.ins file? Did you make it up yourself? If so, you might be better off creating a real tape, since I don't know what values should go into that file. For that matter, what _is_ in the debian.ins file? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Adam Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian install problem On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:28:42PM +0100, Maciej Ksiezycki wrote: > Trying to install Debian on my RA6 (G5) I have encountered on some > problems et the very beginning. I want to run it on an LPAR (SuSE works > perfectly this way). > I prepared a CD to use it on my HMC with just 4 files: > kernel.debian > parmfile.debian > initrd.debian > debian.ins I don't know what debian.ins is doing there unless it's your TDF file. The other three are in the right order. Make sure that your TDF file specifies the three files in the right order. I also found once that I had to pad parmfile out to 1K with nulls to make the emulated tape work right, but that was on a Hercules system and I don't know if real iron requires that. Adam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "My eyes say their prayers to her / Sailors ring her bell / Like a moth mistakes a light bulb / For the moon and goes to hell." -- Tom Waits
