[SLOF] SLOF on JS21

[Thomas Huth]

On 20.01.2016 07:05, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 01/11/2016 06:34 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 11.01.2016 02:58, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>> On 01/08/2016 07:11 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> [...]
>>>> Now I'm back from vacation ... but currently I don't have the
>>>> PowerStation with me anymore .... I'll try when I'm back at the
>>>> location where I left it...
>>>
>>> Turns out I have JS22 (Type 7998) and JS21 (Type 8844) here where I can
>>> try SLOF. btw are they any different from the SLOF bootability
>>> prospective?
>>>
>>> Also since it has been a while since I flashed those last time, can you
>>> please send few commands how to flash slof and how to switch sides?
>>
>> SLOF only works on JS20 and JS21, since these were the PowerPC 970 based
>> blades. JS22 is POWER6, so SLOF won't work there.
>>
>> JS21 also ships with a pHyp based firmware by default. So IIRC the
>> easiest way to boot SLOF there is to set up a TFTP server on another
>> machine, and then to boot the takeover image:
>>
>> - Build SLOF with "make js2x"
>> - Then create the takeover image with "make -C board-js2x takeover"
>> - Copy clients/takeover/takeover.elf to your TFTP server and boot it
> 
> My js2x is running some firmware with the screen like:
> 
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>           1 = SMS Menu                          5 = Default Boot List
>           8 = Open Firmware Prompt              6 = Stored Boot List
> 
> 
>      Memory      Keyboard     Network     SCSI     Speaker  ok

That's the default pHyp based firmware.

> which is not SLOF and takeover does not seem working there :-/

What happens if you boot the takeover.elf?

 Thomas