Subject: Re: yellowdoglinux on 43p-120
From: Sean M. Alderman (netsurfer@mindless.com)
Date: Thu Sep 23 1999 - 06:59:22 MDT
I think all 43Ps are PCI machines...but I'm in the same boat with my
43P-132. There doesn't seem to be a key that selects the Open Firmware
commandline...I even called IBM-SERV on this and they said if I'm going to
boot it I've got to boot it from a CD, or SCSI device. That's when I
thought of trying to put the ZIMAGE on a CD...but I've had no luck with that
either.
Which goes back to a note I had written a week ago or so - asking for a
universal boot image to be placed on the YDL cd...much like IBM puts a boot
image on their AIX media disks that will boot any IBM machine (PCI or MCA).
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Scherbinski <Scherbis@meijer.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: yellowdoglinux on 43p-120
>
> Not having a 43p-120 around here, I don't know for sure, but looking
through the 43p-140 service manual, which came with the machine, at the end
of chapter six (Loading the system diagnostics) is a summary table of boot
options and control keys. You may want to try to find that and look for a
key that selects the Open Firmware command line. Is the 120 a Micro-Channel
bus machine or does it have a pci bus?
>
>
> Steve Scherbinski - Technical Specialist
> Meijer Server Architecture x17441 or 616-735-7441
> 2727 Walker Ave. Grand Rapids, MI 49544
>
> Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
>
> >>> carlino <carlino@ilrspa.com> 09/23 6:51 AM >>>
> Steve Scherbinski wrote:
>
> ><SNIP>
>
> I tried this, as stated in the yellowdoglinux rs6000 installation webpage,
but with
> no luck.
>
> It seems that the F8 key don't work in the 43p-120.
>
> Bye!
>
> Thanks!
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