[gentoo-ppc-dev] E20 7024 boot/rootdisk ?

[gentoo-ppc-dev] E20 7024 boot/rootdisk ?

[Mark McClellan]

Sorry to come across lazy here but...

Someone sent me a link to a prep kernel that looked like it booted on my E20. I say looked because nothing displayed on my monitor.  I did try just hooking up a serial console, but I didn't get any output. My question is... Do I need to yank the graphics card (110P) and use a serial console for the install/setup?

Assuming this works I need some pointers on modifing the PPClive cd w/ the prep kernel. I've never tried to build/modify an iso, just point me in the right direction.

Thanks,

Mark



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Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] E20 7024 boot/rootdisk ?

[Bartosch Pixa]

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for serial console you have to pass something like this to the kernel.
"console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0"

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] E20 7024 boot/rootdisk ?

[Mark McClellan]

I posted most of this info on the PPC forum.

The gentoo prep kernel won't boot. It hangs after the "Booting Kernel" message.

I'm using this guy's write up as a reference for my E20. He got debain up and running on a E30 (both servers are 7024 models).

http://home.tiscali.be/philipa/rs6000-instproc.html#bootroot

His kernel hangs after loading the scsi driver.

I don't know if I'm dead or not.....

Thanks,


markpmc


-----Original Message-----
From: Bartosch Pixa <darkspecter@gentoo.org>
Sent: Sep 19, 2003 8:13 AM
To: gentoo-ppc-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] E20 7024 boot/rootdisk ?

for serial console you have to pass something like this to the kernel.
"console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0"

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Bartosch Pixa
Gentoo Linux Developer                    http://www.gentoo.org




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