Booting Fedora on an old 7248

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:59 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> What PReP bootloaders exist?  When I was using my 7248 in the
> past, I always just booted a floppy that had a kernel dd'ed to it.
> Alternatively you could boot from a PReP partition (type 41) with a
> kernel dd'ed to it.
> 
> I remember once thinking that implementing a yaboot- or grub-like
> bootloader for PReP might be a fun/interesting project, but the
> userbase is a bit limited and the box is a bit wimpy...
> 
> Anyway, if you know of a bootloader for PReP I'd like to hear about it.
> I imagine that you might could implement a kexec-based loader nowadays
> as an alternative.  Well, I'm rambling...

I did have yaboot working on my 43p-140 before I tried to update its
firmware and turned it into a brick.

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