boot problems on pseries

[Linas Vepstas]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:50:26PM -0400, dtutty at porchlight.ca 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	

Olaf's suggestion to use netboot is a good one.

Have you tried googling "yaboot claim fail"?

I see suggetions to run yabootconfig, which normally
writes stuff to a special boot partition at /dev/sda1  
No clue how to do this for a CD.

The BSD faq has a long discussion

http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#ofw-claim-failed

which seems to indicate that some load or offset is being
incorrectly specified.

There seem to be plenty of other discussions as well

--linas