Fwd: Netbooting IBM pSeries

[Naveen]

Yes, this works. So why the install kernel doesn't boot  (since it doesn't
come with a separate initrd)?

- Naveen

On 4/21/06, Paul Nasrat <pnasrat at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>


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- Naveen
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