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

[Sven Luther]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:17:54PM +0100, Stefan Nürnberger wrote:
> 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).

Mmm, come to think of it, what i was trying would not boot at all, since
i am using a standard 2.6.26 kernel.

I suppose there are some powerstation specific patches, does anyone know
the canonical location to such ? The terrasoft web pages doesn't point
to them.

Friendly,

Sven Luther