Re: Re: Booting openSUSE-NET-ppc-Build0003-Media.iso
Larry Stotler <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Andreas Färber <[email protected]> wrote: > Our quest here is testing and fixing Factory, not running some > old-but-working version. :) Kudos to Dinar for getting it this far already! > So I am mainly in need of pointers how to get some of these fixed. I realize that. Was just offering an alternative. > I notice that the CD that boots fine uses \suse\yaboot.ibm, whereas the > FAT16 boot partition uses just a yaboot file. Are there differences > between yaboot and yaboot.ibm maybe? I tried appending all kinds of > things in OF such as :1,yaboot without success, and the SMS menu is able > to boot fine from CD but not from disk. Way back when, you had to use CD2 to boot the IBM style systems. That's probably been one of the biggest problems with POWER is the different type of boot loaders required. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]