POWER3 / IBM 7028-6E1

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 01/09/12 17:45, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote:
>> I don't know what you and Nathan talked about; but, did you try the PPC(32)
>> or PPC64?
> I tried the 32bit PPC, as Nathan suggested. He said the 64-bit requires POWER4
> and higher. Upon selecting "Install Devices" from SMS, and then selecting the
> CD-ROM, SMS doesn't recognize the CD as bootable and doesn't list the OS
> (FreeBSD). With Debian and NetBSD it finds that the CD is bootable and lists
> the title.
>
> I think this is because they both use yaboot, and I don't think the FreeBSD
> uses it. Can you confirm this? I don't have a macintosh to test the FreeBSD PPC
> CD.

It does not use yaboot (I don't believe NetBSD does either). Bootable CD 
support on pSeries is super-experimental right now. Likely it needs some 
additional magic for your machine. If you can get to the OF prompt, you 
might be able to start the loader by hand.
-Nathan