[Debian-ppc64-devel] How to start installation on an IBM i5 (power5).

[Sven Luther]

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:15:08AM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On May/20, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > the pseries should work, have you tried the power4 32bit kernels ?
> 
> 	No, I haven't, because I can't even make the box recognize the CD-ROM
> as a bootable device. When I try to boot from it, it just goes "No operating
> system installed". That's the problem: it's not that the kernel doesn't work,
> but that the CD doesn't boot.

Oh well, I guess we need some kind of blessing for it to zork correctly, there
was some mention of this in the past already, i thought it was fixed. Can you
fill a but report against debian-installer about this ?

> 	Maybe I'm writing the CD in some wrong way. Does it need to be burnt
> in any special way? I just used cdrecord plainly, but maybe I need to use some
> special switch :-?

have you tried the netboot kernel ? power4/netboot/vmlinuz-chrp.initrd

> > > 	I'll have this box for some time, so if I can do any test to help,
> > > just ask :-)
> > Have you tried Cajus's stuff? 
> 
> 	I have no idea of what's that "Cajus' stuff" O:-) Where could I find
> it?

Like said in a previous mail in this thread, cajus pollmeyer did some work to
get a ppc64 debian-installer going, for some power5 machines. I think he
posted the link here or in debian-powerpc. If not , google is your firend.

Friendly,

Sven Luther