Booting Fedora on an old 7248

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 07:30 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> The B50 is a CHRP machine.  The 7248 is a PReP machine.  Fedora does
> not support PReP machines.  

It shouldn't actually be that hard. Just feed it a flattened device-tree
from your bootloader and it should be fine.

> The oldest 43p style machine that I know
> of that worked is the 43p-150, and that hasn't worked in a while
> because the kernel dies during boot.

I do have a 43p-150 now, I think. I'm waiting for the bloody electrician
to wire up my new workshop properly, and I can start plugging machines
in...

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation