Booting Fedora on an old 7248

[Ingvar Hagelund]

* Josh Boyer
>>>> The B50 is a CHRP machine.  The 7248 is a PReP machine.  Fedora does
>>>> not support PReP machines.  

* Ingvar Hagelund
> I know, as I said in the posting, "It didn't work, of course", but since
> it was possible to make PReP boxes boot off a CD in the old days, I
> thought that perhaps it was doable or at least fixable.
> 
> I heard on IRC a few days ago that support for the PReP platform is
> still compiled into the Fedora ppc32 kernel, and that there was still a
> few people using Fedora on PReP, even though they had to figure out the
> installation on their own.
> 
> I guess I should start out by dd'ing the ppc32 kernel to my PReP boot
> partiton and see what happens.

I'll try to build a kernel with the misc.c bootloader, so I have to
change the kernel-config a tiny bit.

I simply added this to one of the generic powerpc config files:

CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y
CONFIG_CMDLINE="root=/dev/cdrom console=ttyS0,9600"

If the misc.c bootloader thing works at it did in good old 2.4 days, I
can edit the options at boot time, and play with them till I find
something that works. Does anybody have a working command line to mount
the cd and start anaconda from one of the ramdisk images on it? Is it
even possible? I could perhaps load the images from a hdd instead?

The kernel is building on my B50 now. That will take a few hours, I
guess. When it has finished, I have to make that old-style zImage with
the bootloader piggybacked on. How can I do that? Is this what the
kernel-bootwrapper package is for? Or do I have to do "make zImage"
somewhere in the specfile?

Ingvar