[gentoo-ppc-dev] rs6000

[gentoo-ppc-dev] rs6000

[John Warren]

hello

When searching through the forums I was directed to this list.  At my job I
have access to numerous rs6000 machines both MCA, PREP, and CHRP models.  I
am a avid x86 user of gentoo and converted numerous people I work with.  I
would like to install Gentoo on some of our lab machines but have had
problems so far.  The only real documentation I have found was from the
7043-140 website by leigh brown and have not had much success with it.  Is
there currently a rs6000 build in the making that needs worked on or tested?
Any assistance would be appreciated.



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Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] rs6000

[John H]

How do these machines boot?
How do you you select a /root partition while booting
(or whatever the equivalent thing is on one of those boxes?)
What OS is on there now?

I've got gentoo on an amigaone ppc box, but I needed a pre-existing
debian install to set it up.

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:58, John Warren wrote:
> hello
> 
> When searching through the forums I was directed to this list.  At my job I
> have access to numerous rs6000 machines both MCA, PREP, and CHRP models.  I
> am a avid x86 user of gentoo and converted numerous people I work with.  I
> would like to install Gentoo on some of our lab machines but have had
> problems so far.  The only real documentation I have found was from the
> 7043-140 website by leigh brown and have not had much success with it.  Is
> there currently a rs6000 build in the making that needs worked on or tested?
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] rs6000

[j-warren]

Right now all of the machines are booting using AIX as the OS.  I know I will have to have a special kernel for the ppc and prep as well but I do not beleive that I can compile it on AIX?  I almost had debian installed on the system at one point but was having trouble with the bootloader( yaboot i think) not to mention i really dont like debian i scrapped it and have been trying to find a way to install gentoo ever since.
> How do these machines boot?
> How do you you select a /root partition while booting
> (or whatever the equivalent thing is on one of those boxes?)
> What OS is on there now?
> 
> I've got gentoo on an amigaone ppc box, but I needed a pre-existing
> debian install to set it up.
> 
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:58, John Warren wrote:
> > hello
> > 
> > When searching through the forums I was directed to this list.  At my job I
> > have access to numerous rs6000 machines both MCA, PREP, and CHRP models.  I
> > am a avid x86 user of gentoo and converted numerous people I work with.  I
> > would like to install Gentoo on some of our lab machines but have had
> > problems so far.  The only real documentation I have found was from the
> > 7043-140 website by leigh brown and have not had much success with it.  Is
> > there currently a rs6000 build in the making that needs worked on or tested?
> > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] rs6000

[Kevyn Shortell]

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On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:58, John Warren wrote:
> hello
> 
> When searching through the forums I was directed to this list.  At my job I
> have access to numerous rs6000 machines both MCA, PREP, and CHRP models.  I
> am a avid x86 user of gentoo and converted numerous people I work with.  I
> would like to install Gentoo on some of our lab machines but have had
> problems so far.  The only real documentation I have found was from the
> 7043-140 website by leigh brown and have not had much success with it.  Is
> there currently a rs6000 build in the making that needs worked on or tested?
> Any assistance would be appreciated.

Hello John,

Some good news, and some bad news, first the good news. Prep machines
can be bootstrapped, its not the best solution, but none of the ppc devs
have an active RS/6000 to include boot cd support for. From what I hear
so far, the YDL lists have the best directions so far, having been
around longer than most other ppc dists they were the first to run on
the RS6Ks. Any modern ppc/Linux kernel configured for a prep/chrp box
should boot most RS6Ks with 604s. Power series machines require a lot
more work, since only SuSE has a working kernel for those. But I hear
its possible to rip SuSE's kernel and use a Debian or Gentoo user land
instead of SuSE's.

The bad news, MCA machines will never work with ppc/Linux. It's
unsupported in the kernel and there is no movement to support them. IBM
shot themselves in the foot in the early days by trying to have a
proprietary system which locked customers into IBM solutions. History
has proven it worked. It's AIX for those boxes.

trance
gentoo/ppc kernel team



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