Subject: RE: RS/6000
From: Stefan Schneider (stefan.schneider@comsat.com.ve)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 09:09:20 MDT
Just two questions, will that method work for installing YDL 1.2 on a brand
new unformatted HD and will it work for Serial Console only?, I tried
without luck to install last friday with a borrowed Matrox Card and although
the kernel booted, the initrd image started I couldn't install no matter
what I tried because of the symlink bug in the RS/6000 image (Why on earth
isn't this fixed so it looks for YellowDog instead of RedHat???). I tried
everything, setting up an FTP with the whole thing, exporting that via NFS,
putting a web server, etc. and still no install...
Oh well will try this and if it works I'd seriously recommend Terrasoft to
update the RS/6000 install instructions with these :)
Regards
Stefan Schneider
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 6:15 PM
Subject: RS/6000
> Hi All,
>
> I've finally got a kernel working on RS/6000.
> It works on our B50 (which is now running 1.2).
>
> Here's all you need to do:
>
> 1) download http://www.terraplex.com/~dburcaw/zImage (binary mode)
> 2) copy zImage onto a blank dos floppy
> 3) get ramdisk.image.gz from your YDL CD (or the ftp site)
> 4) put a second floppy into a *nix box and do:
> dd if=ramdisk.image.gz of=/dev/fd0
> 5) use "F8" to get to your RS6k's Open Firmware prompt
> as soon as the LCD reads: E1F1
>
> 6) type: boot floppy:,\ZIMAGE root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1
> 7) insert the ramdisk floppy when prompted to do so.
> 8) Install YDL. Be sure to add a small (~3-5 meg) PReP Boot
> partition as the first partition on the first hard disk.
> Make this partition as bootable.
> 9) remember the / (root) of your installation.
> 10) after the installer, reboot the system and again go into Open Firmware
> 11) Boot into Linux with the FLOPPY instructions below.
>
> If you'd like to boot from hard disk... continue. If not You're good to
> go.
>
> (Boot from hard disk steps...)
> 12) once in, type: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (make sure that floppy #1 in
> is the drive)
> 13) next, dd if=/mnt/floppy/zimage of=/dev/sda1 (sda1 is my PReP Boot
> partition and should be yours too. If not, replace sda1 with your
> PReP Boot: note... we've not tried a PReP Boot other then sda1)
> 14) reboot your system and follow the HARD DISK instructions below.
>
>
> -- BOOT LINUX FROM FLOPPY --
>
> at the OF prompt, type: boot floppy:,\ZIMAGE root=/dev/XXXX
>
> (where XXXX is the partition the Linux root was installed onto)
>
>
> -- BOOT LINUX FROM HARD DISK --
>
> at the OF prompt, type:
>
> setenv auto-boot true
> setenv boot-device disk
> setenv boot-file root=/dev/XXXX
> setenv boot-command boot
>
> (where XXXX is the partition the Linux root was installed onto)
>
> then, type:
>
> reset-all
>
> Your system should reboot and load Linux :)
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
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