Re: RS/6000 43P


Subject: Re: RS/6000 43P
From: Philippe SENOT (senot@ipc.sciences.univ-metz.fr)
Date: Fri Sep 17 1999 - 07:13:55 MDT


Thanks for explications and I 'm waiting for ...

Note : Someone in IBM Staff has booted luckly on a 43P 133 !!!! and me with
the same diskette .... nothing ! (not YellowDog zimage but
LinuxPPC/users/gdt/zimage)

The questions : what are the differences between this two models ????
(I had upgraded my firmware to release 1.12)

A 13:34 17/09/99 +0200, vous avez écrit :
>Hallo,
>
>> Has anyone out there had any success installing yellowdog on a 43P ?
>
>Not yet, still trying ...
>
>IMHO the images you (and me) are trying aren't meant for that model.
>Model 120, as well as 100 (mine) and 133, do NOT have OF, so they do NOT
display
>a boot prompt nor handle F8 key.
>That model look after a different type of boot floppy, like the ones that
>were available for LinuxPPC installation.
>I hope YDL people will soon build a backward compatible boot image.
>
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