Re: Install onto B50


Subject: Re: Install onto B50
From: Steve Scherbinski (Scherbis@meijer.com)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 14:14:29 MST


Do you have a video card/monitor or are you using a rs-232 terminal for the console? The boot floppies don't appear to like rs-232 consoles. Other than that, I've installed the stock floppies from YDL on a B50 just fine.

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>>> davidmcw@istmail.com 02/18 9:55 AM >>> I'm trying to install Yellow Dog onto an IBM B50, using their very scant instructions. After battling for a while I get the following when booting from the floppy I made, as per their instructions; 0 > boot floppy:,\ZIMAGE chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x400000 initial ramdisk moving 0x756000 <- 0x4b5cfc (a9628 bytes) gunzipping (0x10000 <- 0x415d38:0x4b5cf8)...done 1491136 bytes start address = 0x1000c copying OF device tree...done instantiating rtas... done And then nothing..... Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, David

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