Fedora on IBM iSeries

[Guy Streeter]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 13:19, Guy Streeter wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 02:25, fabian.arrotin at ibsbe.be wrote:
> > Hi ,
> > 
> > The iSeries box on which i want to install Fedora is a iSeries 810 (Power
> > 4). I've already installed a Redhat 7.1 and a Suse Entreprise 8.0 on this
> > machine (just for tests) in a LPAR.
> > How can i launch the Fedora Setup on such box ?
> > I remember that for the Redhat 7.1, i needed to
> > - copy the vmlinux file on the IFS (Integrated File System) of the iSeries
> > - configure the LPAR to boot from a STMF (Stream file) located in the root
> > of the iSeries file system
> > - Vary on (power on) the LPAR on the iSeries
> > - Kernel boots and launch the setup program (from that point, i configured
> > the LAN and choose to install from an NFS server)
> > 
> > So, do you think i just need for the Fedora to :
> > - copy the files located here :
> > http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/ppc/iSeries
> > on my iSeries
> > - launch the LPAR like i did in the past for the Redhat 7.1 ?
> > 
> 
> I just tried this with the latest rawhide. The installer kernel oopsed
> very early on.
> 

This kernel oops is apparently fixed in rawhide now.

--Guy