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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