From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <000601c15323$17398190$020aa8c0@dimbar> From: "Nils Krueger" To: Cc: References: <15302.40082.869098.88039@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Subject: Re: boot methods Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:37:51 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi Paul! > I would like to make a complete list of the methods people use to boot > the PPC/Linux kernel on different platforms. As a start, here is what > I can think of off the top of my head: I have a Motorola PowerStack "Series E" PReP machine. I can boot the zImage.prep from a "PPC PReP Boot" partition (type 41) having written it to that partition using the dd command. The PPCBug firmware has also the following options. I have only tested booting from floppy. - boot zImage from floppy disk, CD or tape (also directly written to it) - network boot (tftp) Nilz -- http://www.hoschi.de/nilz (Nilz' Homepage) ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/