From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.ozlabs.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (verified OK)) by bilbo.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7C09B7063 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:10:47 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail.lixom.net (lixom.net [66.141.50.11]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83106DDD0B for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:10:47 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:18:07 -0500 From: Olof Johansson To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: Best hardware platform for native compiling... Message-ID: <20090722201807.GA11949@lixom.net> References: <200907211116.52963.david.jander@protonic.nl> <20090721095251.GG32034@lisas.de> <200907211231.37299.david.jander@protonic.nl> <20090721120007.GA23164@iram.es> <1248180459.31121.9.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1248180459.31121.9.camel@pasglop> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Jander List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:47:39PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Well, I got one recently here in Spain. Shipping charges are fairly > > large (it's not exactly a light and compact machine). But the current > > dollar exchange rate helps ;-) > > > > Now I have not yet found the way to install Debian on it > > (it refuses to boot Debian's CDROM), but I have not had > > time to investigate either. > > It uses SLOF which should be capable of decent netbooting, so it should > be possible to either netboot yaboot and have it load the kernel and > initramfs, or maybe make a zImage with both included and netboot that. Placing the debian (netinst) installer ramdisk and kernel on the /boot partition and booting it from there should work too (after adding it to the yaboot config). -Olof