10-15-2008
debian boot failed on IBM RS6000 7025 F80
Hi everybody.
I have an old IBM RS6000 Model 7025 F80 with AIX 4.3.3 installed with 2 primary scsi disks. I want to install linux (any flavor) on it. I downloaded and burned an iso image of debian (
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/...pc-netinst.iso), modified the first boot device config, booted from this cd and after some hours I hade a brand new perfect multi cpu 64 bit version of debian with linux 2.6.<something>
. after booting the machine says it has no installed os on it. i tried installing on both disks and same thing: perfect installation, but no boot
. I also tried different partition schemes. the last partition scheme i used wasone partition per fs and vlm enabled. I also upgraded the bios firmware to the last version from
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/firmware/gjsn and same results: perfect installation and no boot.
any help really appreciated
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LORAX(1) General Commands Manual LORAX(1)
NAME
lorax - Create installer boot iso
SYNOPSIS
lorax -p PRODUCT -v VERSION -r RELEASE -s REPOSITORY OUTPUTDIR
DESCRIPTION
lorax is used to create the installer boot iso.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-V show program's version number and exit
REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
:
-p STRING, --product=STRING
product name
-v STRING, --version=STRING
version identifier
-r STRING, --release=STRING
release information
-s REPOSITORY, --source=REPOSITORY
source repository (may be listed multiple times)
OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS
:
-m REPOSITORY, --mirrorlist=REPOSITORY
mirrorlist repository (may be listed multiple times)
-t STRING, --variant=STRING
variant name
-b URL, --bugurl=URL
bug reporting URL for the product
--isfinal
-c STRING, --config=STRING
config file
--proxy=STRING
repo proxy url:port
-e STRING, --excludepkgs=STRING
package glob to exclude (may be listed multiple times)
--buildarch=STRING
build architecture
--volid=STRING
volume id
--nomacboot
--noupgrade
--logfile=LOGFILE
Path to logfile
--tmp=TMP
Top level temporary directory
AUTHORS
Martin Gracik
Will Woods
Brian C. Lane
2013-07-26 LORAX(1)