PPC Supported HW

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:21 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 11:54 -0500, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 13:12 -0500, James E. LaBarre wrote:
> > >> I grabbed the first disk for the PPC build of FC4-T2, and was reading
> > >> through the README files to see what the supported hardware is before I
> > >> burn that disk and grab the rest.
> > >> 
> > >> Problem is, the disk has the HW Requirements fole for intel/X86 systems,
> > >> rather than the PPC file.
> > >
> > >What hardware are you looking at installing on?
> > 
> > 
> > RS/6000 (at the moment, I have a 43P-140 to try it on, but that machine
> > type has long-standing problems for booting).
> 
> Um, that box is PReP and AFAIK isn't well supported by mainline kernels
> in the later 2.6 series.  Last I knew you had to use special kernels
> with a number of extra patches for that box (mine's in a closet in
> Minnesota so I can't test with it).
> 
> 
> This site has all the dirt:
> 
> http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/
> 
> Dan

I may need to eat my words:

http://lists.solinno.co.uk/pipermail/rs6kpreplinux-users/2005-
March/001888.html

Dan