IBM Intellistation 275

[Terry Polzin]

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 13:15 +0100, Dan Horák wrote:
> George E Sollish píše v Čt 06. 12. 2012 v 04:33 -0500: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've tried this several times over several Fedora ppc64 releases, most 
> > recently 17, and each time my IBM 9114-275 reads the install iso but exits 
> > with an 'kernel read failed' error.  I'm reasonably sure the iso's are 
> > good.  Am I missing some special boot instructions?
> > 
> > Previously, I've run Crux ppc64 on this machine; currently its running AIX 
> > 5.3.
> 
> I think the problem is in the file size limits in the firmware, the
> kernel and/or ramdisk are too big to load. I've used
> http://sharkcz.livejournal.com/8649.html to install F-15 my
> Intellistation, the procedure should work for newer Fedora too. Once you
> have one Fedora installed you can use yum to upgrade to newer release.
> 
> 
> Dan
> 
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Only issue here as I see it, is that you need to have a running system
to set this all up.  I would suggest that a smaller initrd image is
needed. OR we need updated frimware from IBM.