Fwd: Netbooting IBM pSeries
Paul Nasrat
pnasrat at redhat.com
Sat Apr 22 00:06:55 EST 2006
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 19:30 +0530, Naveen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's been some time since I asked this question. But could test now
> only.
>
> I have tried netbooting an OpenPower 710 in the way described below
> using the yaboot at the Fedora Dev link in the same mail. I was not
> successfull in netbooting.
>
> Here is what happens ...
>
> ------ x ----------------- x ---------------------------- x
> --------------------------- x -----------------------
>
> boot: rhel3
Does this work for the kernel and ramdisk from say RHEL4 or FC5 (you wan
the ppc one).
> Please wait, loading kernel...
>
> BOOTP: chosen-network-type = ethernet,100,rj45,full
> BOOTP: server IP = 0.0.0.0
> BOOTP: requested filename = \ppc\vmlinux
> BOOTP: client IP = 0.0.0.0
> BOOTP: client HW addr = 0 2 55 d3 df b7
> BOOTP: gateway IP = 0.0.0.0
> BOOTP: device /pci at 800000020000003/pci at 2,2/ethernet at 1
> BOOTP: loc-code U787E.001.1234567-P2-C2-T1
>
>
> BOOTP R = 1 BOOTP S = 2
> FILE: /ppc/vmlinux
> FINAL Packet Count = 10906
> FINAL File Size = 5583409 bytes.
> load-base=0x4000
> real-base=0xc00000
> Elf32 kernel loaded...
Is this really a 32 bit kernel or is it a zImage, if it's a zImage
that's not currently working.
Paul
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