From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Jander <david.jander@protonic.nl>
Subject: Re: Best hardware platform for native compiling...
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:18:07 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090722201807.GA11949@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248180459.31121.9.camel@pasglop>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 9:16 Best hardware platform for native compiling David Jander
[not found] ` <20090721095251.GG32034@lisas.de>
2009-07-21 10:31 ` David Jander
2009-07-21 12:00 ` Gabriel Paubert
2009-07-21 12:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-22 20:18 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2009-07-21 13:07 ` David Jander
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