Re: Linux on P7?

There are a few things to take into account. POWER Systems PRE POWER8 only
run BIG endian distros, that is, ppc64 compiled distros. POWER8 and above
run both ppc64 and ppc64el (LITTLE endian). Ubuntu is only Little endian.
Redhat, Suse, Centos, and a lot other have ppc64 distros.
The "official" tag is a reference to official support. You only care about
support on production machines.
I've loaded OpenSUSE on a Power5 machine so you can load without any
problems on a Power6.
Like they've said, If the machine had 520b x sector disks you will have to
reformat them (if they are 2.5" drives AND they support it) or exchange
them for any SAS disk that fits in the bay (xSeries drives sometimes have
the same tray and work perfectly for AIX/Linux).
Obviously you won't have a video adapter unless the machine came with one
(and they seldom do even when they are AIX machines), so you will only have
the tty device from the HMC and the ones in the machine itselft, at least
until you bring up the network.

Best of luck playing with LoP!

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 12:38 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Bryan,

I didn't know you could run CentOS on Power?
I thought it could only be Red Hat, SUSE, or Ubuntu.

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Bryan Dietz
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 11:25 AM
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Subject: Re: Linux on P7?

I seem to recall that you'll need the big-endian distro for Power 7.

Loading as a NWSD hosted on IBM i might make it easier to do.
the IBM i LPAR would need minimal OS and processor resources.

I am running CentOS 7.2 on our Power8

Bryan



Buck Calabro wrote on 7/10/2018 4:42 PM:

On 7/10/2018 3:39 PM, Steve Pavlichek wrote:

Supported Linux distributions and virtualization options for POWER8 and

POWER9 Linux on Power systems

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/linuxonibm/

liaam/liaamdistros.htm#liaamdistros__supportedpower8

Thanks Steve.
I might be over-thinking it, but I have 40 years of midrange experience,
and I sort of expect a convoluted install process. So I'm looking for a
canonical 'How to install Linux on Power'. I saw the referenced page,
but I didn't see any download / install instructions. The dW link Kevin
posted looks promising.

It really is a P7 8202-E4C - I typed the wrong model number in my
initial post.

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