Booting Fedora on an old 7248

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:21:07PM +0200, Ingvar Hagelund wrote:
>I am the lucky(?) owner of an IBM RS6000 43P-133 aka the 7248 "Carolina" 
>PReP workstation. They run Debian quite happily from a dist-upgraded 
>woody install a few years ago if I boot them.
> 
>Now, a few days ago, I needed to do some testing on PPC, so I installed 
>f9 on an old B50 that I had tossed in the attic. I installed cleanly out 
>of the box. Inspired, I dug out one of the 7248s and tried to boot one 
>of them with the f9 boot iso too. It didn't work, of course, as the 

The B50 is a CHRP machine.  The 7248 is a PReP machine.  Fedora does
not support PReP machines.  The oldest 43p style machine that I know
of that worked is the 43p-150, and that hasn't worked in a while
because the kernel dies during boot.

josh