From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from natreg.rzone.de (natreg.rzone.de [81.169.145.183]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E6F67C35 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:36:27 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:35:29 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: dtutty@porchlight.ca Subject: Re: boot problems on pseries Message-ID: <20060822223528.GA7546@aepfle.de> References: <20060820170055.GA8958@hooton> <20060821145624.GA30464@aepfle.de> <20060822165023.GA4807@hooton> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <20060822165023.GA4807@hooton> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Aug 22, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote: > Boot failures: > > 1. CD not recognized as bootable, so use OF manually. > 2. OF manually will boot yaboot. > 3. yaboot doesn't find its config in the /etc directory > of the cd, nor in the / directory of the CD with the > yaboot executable. > 4. when manually from yaboot attempt to boot a kernel > image, get either: > a) CLAIMED FAILED > b) incorrect ELF format > (something like that, I wasn't there > when the tech got that one) > c) not a valid kernel image > > At no point do I get any indication that the linux kernel has had a > chance to try booting; it doesn't get that far. I havent seen that sort of error, maybe a bad burn. > I'll look at SuSE and see if there's a free-download of a boot floppy. http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-ppc-mini.iso http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/boot/boot.ppc.iso You can try to boot the inst32 file via the network. Make sure to fix the ARP entry for the H50 on the tftp server, like 'arp -s 1.2.3.4 MAC' yaboot.ibm can also be used. Rename yaboot.cnf to yaboot.conf so yaboot will be able to download it.