Is it able to boot freebsd9 ppc on IBM system p5+?
Gennady G. Marchenko
gennady.marchenko at itv.ru
Tue Oct 19 14:35:22 UTC 2010
19.10.2010 17:55, Nathan Whitehorn ?????:
>
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Gennady G. Marchenko wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> We have "system p5 520" (http://developer.novell.com/yes/86385.htm)
>> system, and I found information there that FreeBSD9-Current now
>> support Power5-64.
>>
>> So could we boot our System p5 520 with it?
>
> At present, no: the PCI controller is currently unsupported due to
> historical lack of access to hardware. Andreas Tobler is currently
> working on a port to a similar machine, if you are willing to wait a
> little while. It might also help if you were willing to provide remote
> access to the HMC for a few weeks to a month.
> -Nathan
Thanks for the answer Nathan. I'm glad to hear it. At present I tried to
start boot it from CD/DVD and fail with message "AA060011, /No OS
image/ was /detected by firmware/. " ISOs I got from
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100715-SNAP-powerpc64/
and
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/FreeBSD-9.0-20100910-SNAP-powerpc64/
for both of it the error was same - is it normal or I did something wrong?
I'll try to give you access to the HMC if you can give me a link to DOCs
"how to setup it" or explain it shortly.
Gennady.
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