RS/6000 7025 F50 System with debian sarge

[Bruhin]

Hello

I have a RS/6000 7025 F50 system with 1 GB RAM and 10 x 9.1 GB HD with
3 604e CPUs.

Does someone know a working system with sarge or woody with my hardware
type?

I would like to use the following ISO: debian-31r0a-powerpc-netinst.iso

It doesn't boot altough i set the bootlist to cd only. It tries booting but
makes restarts all the time.

I think, that i can choose at installation time a working default kernel.
Assumed that i can boot a bootmedia (CD, HD, NFS, TFTP and so on). What
would you recommend?

I think that i must afterwards compile a new kernel to support 3 CPUs.


I tried today to boot from the HD (harddisk) according to the "Debian
GNU/Linux-Installationmanual at 4.5.2 and 5.1.2.3.

That means:

Downloading the files vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot and yaboot.conf and
copied to the root directory (/) (now still AIX works, which i would like to
replace with Debian sarge)

My root directory is under /dev/hd4

I booted the system new and with pressing the F1 key i got to the System
Management Services and opened a bootprompt "0 >". Then i tried the
following:

boot hd:4,yaboot

This boots AIX

boot hd:0,yaboot

This boots AIX also

I have the above mentioned ISO in the CD drive an tried with

boot cd:,\install\yaboot

This boots AIX also

I thing i am overlooking something or some information is missing, but
which?

At URL http://www.de.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/prep
There is the following mentioned:

----------------snip----------------------------------
Floppy Based Install

Write the boot1440.bin, root1440.bin, resc1440.bin, drv14-*.bin, and images
to floppy disks. dd can be used on a Linux/Unix system or rawrite can be
used on a DOS/Windows system.
----------------snip----------------------------------

Where can i download this files and would you recommend this method?

What do you think? Which boot method do you recommend?

If you need some more informations, i can provide it to you.

Thanks and hoping hearing form you.

[Bruhin]

I forgot:

OK tried also floppies for woody. They didn't work.

I burned also the testing ISO (i think form 07.06.2005). I also couldn't
boot this CD.

Today i also made a firmware update of my RS/6000 7025 F50 System. Then i
tried to boot all CD and floppies (sarge and woody boot floppies). Still i
can't boot the CD or the floppies.

I didn't tried the HD boot, because i don't know exactly the syntax.

Now i am trying a netboot, so a am installing a bootp/dhcp server and a
tftpd (for this i use a intelbased debian testing server). Is that a way i
could go?

I would really appreciate getting some directions, for getting the right
boot method for booting the debian installer for installing sarge on my
7025 F50 System. I could also think over a woody installation (i tried the
woody boot floppies).

Thanks and hoping hearing form you soon.

[Christoph Weizen]

Hi,

maybe "Bug#322745: IBM 7025-F50 (ppc/chrp) and
debian-31r0a-powerpc-binary-1.iso" will help you?

cheers,
Christoph

Post by Bruhin
I would really appreciate getting some directions, for getting the right
boot method for booting the debian installer for installing sarge on my
7025 F50 System. I could also think over a woody installation (i tried the
woody boot floppies).