Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : PowerPC Linux : Open Firmware :
Quik boot LinuxPPC on an 8500
Notice my HD scsi ID is 6 and would be 0 if it was the factory installed HD.
Hope this helps someone :)
bloodphart@yahoo.com
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Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : PowerPC Linux : Open Firmware :
Quik boot LinuxPPC on an 8500 |
| After many hours of trying to get this to work, I'm finally able to get it to boot directly from the HD. I was following the instructions on http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~aturner/7200boot.html and they helped quite a bit along with the posts here. After poking around in OF I found that the 8500 has 2 scsi contollers /bandit/gc/53c94 and /bandit/gc/mesh these have an alias scsi and scsi-int respectivly. The HD and CD-ROM are on the scsi-int controller. After I figured that out (and which scsi ID my HD was) my OF env vars were
boot-device scsi-int/sd@6:0
boot-file scsi-int/sd@6:2/vmlinux Notice my HD scsi ID is 6 and would be 0 if it was the factory installed HD. Hope this helps someone :) bloodphart@yahoo.com | |
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