Subject: RE: 1.2: Can't install
From: Stefan Schneider (stefan.schneider@comsat.com.ve)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 08:21:44 MDT
Dan, I've been trying to locate that kernel image but the one I downloaded
reports exceptions on all my B50's.. any ideas? (I'm just soooo close to
grab the kernel sources and patch them myself :)
Stefan Schneider
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: 1.2: Can't install
>
> > Had the same problems with an F50. Check this list archive around 5/13.
I had
> > to
> > copy the CD to another server, make symbolic links from RedHat ->
YellowDog,
> > and
> > run FTP install.
> > Then the install worked, but the machine wouldn't boot with the 2.2.15
kernels
> > on the
> > CD. Had to back off to the 2.2.12 kernel from CS 1.1, and now running
2.2.14
> > from
> > the Suse 6.3 Beta.
> > Fun stuff. Your new CD probably won't work either. I think it's
something with
> > the install
> > ramdisk image.
>
> It is not the ramdisk but the kernel. We shipped the 1.1 kernel with 1.2
> for RS6000 just to include a kernel period. (since the 1.1 kernel was the
> last one we were able to build working on RS/6000).
>
> SuSE magically has a 2.2.14 RS/6000 kernel that work for us on our F50 and
> B50. Their kernel source can not be found on their ftp site so they are
> probably holding back important patches to the kernel to fix RS6k support.
> Even the good folks at IBM are having the problems we are.
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
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