[powerstation-owners] Testing and OF question ...

[Stefan Nürnberger]

For getting into the OF I used an old serial terminal at the RJ45 port. 
With this setup it is not tricky to find the right moment for pressing 
"s" (there's plenty of time). You should be able to use another machine 
with 'minicom' or similar for that purpose.

I booted from cd with "boot cdrom" or "boot cdrom:0,/boot/image" (with 
the right path to your image of course) at the SLOF prompt. This worked 
fine for me with the gentoo installation cd. However, the kernels on the 
gentoo cd won't boot. There is a custom powerstation gentoo install cd 
with a working kernel that can be downloaded from [1] (thanks to ranger).

'cdrom' is the typical alias in the OF for the cdrom drive. Note that 
the typical 'hd' alias does not correspond to the hard disk drive in 
this version of SLOF. (This screwed up my own yaboot install).

The SLOF source code can be downloaded (saying "including 
documentation") from IBM at [2]. However, there seems to be not very 
much useful documentation in there. And it's only version 1.7.0-1. The 
PowerStation uses version 1.7.0-3. I don't know who released this 
version but the source should be made available (by TSS?) due to its 
"open nature".

Greetings,
Stefan

[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ranger/downloads/powerstation/
[2] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/pa-slof/

Sven Luther wrote:
> Hi, ...
> 
> Just a quick mail to test the new mailing list.
> 
> That said, i have another question, concerning the OF implementation of
> the powerstation. I tried to boot a custom CD on it, but failed at the
> OF level.
> 
> Is there any documentation of the powerstation firmware, and its
> capability with regard to CD booting ? 
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
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