On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:09:12PM +0100, Martin Küchler wrote:
> Leigh Brown wrote:
> > Yaboot requires OpenFirmware, which is not present on most PReP machines.
> > My 140, which is PReP but has OF, still wouldn't work as the critical
> > OF methods to read from disk didn't work, despite me tryin
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:24:48PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 22, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > No, wait... we really want to use yaboot.
> > And, are you sure yaboot works on PReP machines ? Not on CHRP boxes
> I really don't know.
> But at least on CHRP machines it *sho
Martin Küchler said:
> Sven Luther wrote:
>>> >I believe that we may create a PReP-bootloader-installer or something
>>> >which would take care of moving the kernel to this partition. Not sure
>>> >though how this would work out. A bit like what nobootloader does.
>>> No, wait... we really want to
On Mar 22, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No, wait... we really want to use yaboot.
> And, are you sure yaboot works on PReP machines ? Not on CHRP boxes
I really don't know.
But at least on CHRP machines it *should* be used.
> > I used to dd the kernel on my B50 but had to stop after
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:45:03AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> In linux.debian.maint.boot Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Cool. BTW, is there anything particular needed for a PReP partition ? Or
> No, it only needs to be a < 4 MB raw partition of type 0x41.
Ok, so another articial size
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:55:58PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On 20.III.2004 at 07:22 Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > Anton, do you think that it is possible to set the partition type
> > with libparted, i have some doubts about it, but could be wrong.
>
> Richard Hirst has done this for the PALO
Hi all,
The way I installed the F50 was quite a hack so I
don't think you should document this.
My humble opinion on the installation process as I
don't see the whole picture on other h/w.
The initiative is to create a CD installer so most of
the needed data should be there.
http://www.debian.or
On 20.III.2004 at 07:22 Sven Luther wrote:
>
> Anton, do you think that it is possible to set the partition type
> with libparted, i have some doubts about it, but could be wrong.
Richard Hirst has done this for the PALO boot partitions on hppa. It
works the same way as the lvm flag. For exampl
On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 01:22 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
Ok, copying to debian-boot, since this is most relevant there, and to
rick thomas, which volunteered to help with installation manual. Rick,
this is a boot method on a chrp-rs6k ibm box. I don't know if you are
familiar with these bo
On Sat Mar 20, 2004 at 07:22:07AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> Cool. BTW, is there anything particular needed for a PReP partition ? Or
> is it just a plain empty partition that can be used for booting ? The
> box uses a MBR partition table.
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:42:27PM -0800, Daniel Narkis wrote:
> Hi Sven,
Ok, copying to debian-boot, since this is most relevant there, and to
rick thomas, which volunteered to help with installation manual. Rick,
this is a boot method on a chrp-rs6k ibm box. I don't know if you are
familiar wit
Hi Sven,
Eventually successfull installation of Sarge on the
F50.
After few tries I found that auto-boot can be done
using a PReP partition.
So I think you can leave the vfat out of the initrd
and try to put the option of creating PReP partiton.
Thanks for the help.
Now I have to check:
1. Instal
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