Subject: Re: boot problems on pseries

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:35:29 +0200

On Tue, Aug 22, [email-masked] wrote:

> Boot failures:
> 
> 	1.	CD not recognized as bootable, so use OF manually.
> 	2.	OF manually will boot yaboot.
> 	3.	yaboot doesn't find its config in the /etc directory
> 		of the cd, nor in the / directory of the CD with the
> 		yaboot executable.
> 	4.	when manually from yaboot attempt to boot a kernel
> 		image, get either:
> 			a)	CLAIMED	FAILED	
> 			b)	incorrect ELF format
> 				(something like that, I wasn't there
> 				when the tech got that one)
> 			c)	not a valid kernel image
> 
> At no point do I get any indication that the linux kernel has had a
> chance to try booting; it doesn't get that far.

I havent seen that sort of error, maybe a bad burn.

> I'll look at SuSE and see if there's a free-download of a boot floppy.

http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-stable/iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-ppc-mini.iso
http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/boot/boot.ppc.iso

You can try to boot the inst32 file via the network. Make sure to fix
the ARP entry for the H50 on the tftp server, like 'arp -s 1.2.3.4 MAC'
yaboot.ibm can also be used. Rename yaboot.cnf to yaboot.conf so yaboot
will be able to download it.