From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B4F30F4.307C26BD@vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:33:40 -0500 From: Todd Inglett MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com Cc: leigh@solinno.co.uk, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Booting 43P-140 References: <38851.193.133.92.239.994925353.squirrel@lbbrown.homeip.net> <3B4DCAAD.72D18C80@vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Tom Gall wrote: [...snip....] > Do you have the latest firmware update on your machine? (It's like TIG99 > something) Firmware can be found at http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/support/micro/download.html and you'll probably want the DOS version so you can install it straight from a floppy. Read the instructions carefully, please! :) The latest for the 140 appears to be TIG99292. [...snip...] > If you do get to the prompt, then type > > 0> setenv real-base c00000 > 0> setenv load-base 200000 > 0> boot floppy:,\zimage root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=128000 Also try adding console=ttyS0 in case your video adapter is the problem. You'll need a null modem serial cable over to another machine running minicom, kermit or such. -- -todd ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/