FC4 installation on p-series
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Sep 7 13:15:47 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 13:47 +0100, Paul Timms wrote:
> I am trying to install FC4 on an IBM p-series. I have created a bootable CD
> from the images/pseries boot.iso file which was on CD1. It starts by
> loading Elf64, then loads the RAMDISK, then displays some messages about
> memory, and looks for a display adapter. Then the screen goes white, and
> the following messages appear:
>
> done
> opening PHB /pci at 400000000110... done
> opening PHB /pci at 400000000111... done
> instantiating rtas at 0x000000003ed11000... done
> 0000000000000000 : boot cpu 0000000000000001
> copying OF device tree...
> Building dt strings...
> Building dt structure...
> Device tree strings 0x0000000004989000 ---> 0x000000000498a3c3
> Device tree struct 0x000000000498b000 ---> 0x0000000004994000
> Calling quiesce...
> returning from prom_init
>
> Then it just hangs and I have to reboot.
>
> Any idea why it would be doing this or how to fix it?
>
You did not reply to my earlier message on this.
As an IBM employee providing technical support on the pSeries systems
hardware, I know that certain models can use Linux and others cannot.
Which model are you trying to install it on?
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
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