On Feb 1, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Doug Fairobent wrote:
My recollection is that Linux requires IEEE floating point, a feature not available on pre-G5 machines.
It's actually the halfword immediate stuff, which is present on later G2 machines.
I know that recent Debians won't boot on my P/390 (a G2) but that may be that they assume IEEE support in the supplied kernel (I haven't spent time debugging it, since I have an H70 to play with). You can run with emulated floating point, but it's pretty painful for things like Perl.
You're only supported by the vendors on G5 or later. I'm pretty sure Sine Nomine Associates would contract to support you on an earlier box if you wanted to pay us to do so.
Perhaps the original poster can share the error messages from linuxrc?
Adam
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