Hello,
I'm switching from an IBM 486 and purchasing an IBM H50 (7026-H50), so
I'm new to the PPC. My vendor wants to ensure that it boots linux
before he ships it. I burned and sent him a few different distro CDs to
try and none boot. We can get yaboot to boot then get stuck at the
yaboot command line and can't get futher. As a fall-back, I was hoping
to use OF to boot the kernel directly and get a kernel-panic when it
can't find init but we can't get that far either. The error message
'claim failed' is returned immediatly with no indication that the kernel
tried to start.
I'm told by several people that the H50 is the same as the F50 in a
different format and that the F50 is known to work. Since the task at
hand is to get any linux to boot and not to actually install linux, I
need a kernel that will boot. Even a simple boot-floppy set would be
great.
Does anyone have a link to a boot/root floppy set that will work?
Hardware details: IBM 7026-H50, 256 MB ram, dual PPC 604e 332 MHz, 9.1
GB HD in Bay 2, standard CD-ROM, PowerGXT130P graphics accelerator.
Thanks,
Doug.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:56:24PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 01:00:56PM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
quoted
Does anyone have a link to a boot/root floppy set that will work?
openSuSE will likely work, but do you have any details of the boot
failures and what exactly you have tried so far?
Boot failures:
1. CD not recognized as bootable, so use OF manually.
2. OF manually will boot yaboot.
3. yaboot doesn't find its config in the /etc directory
of the cd, nor in the / directory of the CD with the
yaboot executable.
4. when manually from yaboot attempt to boot a kernel
image, get either:
a) CLAIMED FAILED
b) incorrect ELF format
(something like that, I wasn't there
when the tech got that one)
c) not a valid kernel image
At no point do I get any indication that the linux kernel has had a
chance to try booting; it doesn't get that far.
Thanks,
I'll look at SuSE and see if there's a free-download of a boot floppy.
Doug.
From: Olaf Hering <hidden> Date: 2006-08-22 22:36:27
On Tue, Aug 22, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
Boot failures:
1. CD not recognized as bootable, so use OF manually.
2. OF manually will boot yaboot.
3. yaboot doesn't find its config in the /etc directory
of the cd, nor in the / directory of the CD with the
yaboot executable.
4. when manually from yaboot attempt to boot a kernel
image, get either:
a) CLAIMED FAILED
b) incorrect ELF format
(something like that, I wasn't there
when the tech got that one)
c) not a valid kernel image
At no point do I get any indication that the linux kernel has had a
chance to try booting; it doesn't get that far.
I havent seen that sort of error, maybe a bad burn.
I'll look at SuSE and see if there's a free-download of a boot floppy.
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:50:26PM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
Boot failures:
1. CD not recognized as bootable, so use OF manually.
2. OF manually will boot yaboot.
3. yaboot doesn't find its config in the /etc directory
of the cd, nor in the / directory of the CD with the
yaboot executable.
4. when manually from yaboot attempt to boot a kernel
image, get either:
a) CLAIMED FAILED
Olaf's suggestion to use netboot is a good one.
Have you tried googling "yaboot claim fail"?
I see suggetions to run yabootconfig, which normally
writes stuff to a special boot partition at /dev/sda1
No clue how to do this for a CD.
The BSD faq has a long discussion
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html#ofw-claim-failed
which seems to indicate that some load or offset is being
incorrectly specified.
There seem to be plenty of other discussions as well
--linas