[Debian-ppc64-devel] Dmesg of OpenPower 720 Express with kernel 2.6.12-1-powerpc64

[Harald Görl]

Sven Luther wrote:
>>>Huh ? Why does netbooting not work ? 
>>
>>This is the information i have (and what i can confirm by testing):
>>
>>For netbooting the machine with OpenFirmware/SMS you need *ONE* file to 
>>boot from. It is not possible to boot a kernel with parameters (i.e. 
>>"initrd=...") and give a initrd.gz as a second file!
> 
> 
> Which is the case on all chrp or even all powerpc i know of, and which is why
> you boot yaboot. Does yaboot not work on these boxes ? 

Sorry, perhaps i understand something completely wrong...

What i meant by "netbooting" is to boot from a bootpd/tftpd server 
without any cdrom etc. Of course yaboot does work, but imho you need a 
cdrom for it, isn't it? Or is yaboot able to boot vmlinux/initrd.gz 
files over the network? (Which would be really cool!)

Using cdrom/yaboot is ok for one machine, but with partitioning it means 
you have to switch the ide/cdrom hardware to the one virtual machine 
which is installing at the moment. So booting a "zImage.initrd" with 
tftp is more convenient.

> Also grub2 is supposed to boot just fine
> too on those boxes, try it out.

Cool! I will try.

Harald