Fwd: Netbooting IBM pSeries

[Paul Nasrat]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 19:47 +0530, Naveen wrote:
> 
> Getting the same result for the RHEL4 and FC5 one. The netboot image
> (ppc32.img) from FC5 doesn't work since it's 7.3 MB (larger than 6).
> 
> It is the netboot.img file under the images directory on the CD#1 of
> RHEL. A "file" on this shows that this is a 32-bit executable ... any
> other way to check ? 

Boot the seperate "vmlinuz" (it's vmlinux - don't ask) and
ramdisk.image.gz eg from:


http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/ppc/os/ppc/ppc64/

with a yaboot.conf like:

init-message = "\nWelcome to the installer ppc testing environment!\nHit
<TAB> for boot options.\n\n"

image=/ppc64/vmlinuz
        label=fc5
        initrd=/ppc64/ramdisk.image.gz
        read-only

This should work.  There are some patches I have to review and test to
improve our malloc which should allow larger images, and zImage support
too.  

Paul