problem installing redhat on pSeries 610

[Christian Foerster]

Hello all,

thanks for the info. Wouldn't it be possible to load the install kernel
from the scsi harddisk or over ethernet?

What would the syntax be like in open firmware for booting over the
ethernet? Which filesystems does open firmware support? I've got two
scsi harddisk in the p610. One of them contains a AIX 5.1 Installation.
The other one is empty. Can I just copy the redhat install files to the
scsi harddisk with AIX installed and boot from that? How would the OF
syntax look like in this case?

Any help is appreciated, since we don't have a scsi cd-rom drive here
to boot from. Also we really would like to install redhat on this
machine, since we are all familiar with it. Open firmware is still a
bit tricky for us.

Thanks, Christian

On Friday, March 21, 2003, at 03:45  PM, Kaena Freitas wrote:

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> Hello Christian -
>
> The only systems which are supported by Red Hat 7.1 are the p620,
> p640, and
> p660.
>
> The problem with the p610 is probably due to the fact that the CD-ROM
> is an
> IDE CD-ROM and there isn't any IDE support in RH 7.1. All the pSeries
> models will be supported by later this year in Red Hat Advanced Server
> 3.0.
>
> Aloha,
>
> Kaena
>
> D. Kaena Freitas
> Linux on pSeries Release Architect
> kaena at us.ibm.com  Office: (512)838-2676
> cell: (512)762-3884
>
>
>
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>                       Christian Foerster
>                       <foerster at 8hertz.com>               To:
> jan at smith.pp.se
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>                       owner-linuxppc64-dev at lists.l        Subject:
> problem installing redhat on pSeries 610
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>                       03/21/2003 08:35 AM
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> Hi,
>
> we've got the redhat 7.1 ppc64 distro here and aren't able to install
> it on our pSeries 610. Trying to boot from CD gives a "init-label
> failed" error.
>
> Into Open Firmware we typed the following to start from CD:
>
> boot cd:,/ppc/bootinfo.txt
>
> Any Idea?
>
> Thanks, Chris
>
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