Re: P7 linux

Any PPC64 ISO should work.
RHEL, SUSE, OpenSuse, CENTOS, I think a couple others might have ppc64
versions.
Installation is easy.
If that is the only machine you have and it doesn't have an HMC, you just
pop into the ASMI and reset everything to factory config.
That means that you end up with a single LPAR that owns the entire
hardware. So you can use the CD drive to boot and the serial ports for
interface.
When the SMS boot menu comes up, just install like any AIX/VIOS LPAR.
If you are creating an i hosting Linux LPAR, it's the same, just pop the cd
image into a virtual CD connected to a vscsi adapter (I have to admit that
I've only done i as a host on one customer), but it should be easy.
Any AIX/LINUX LPAR needs:
storage (at least 1 disk)
network
booteable media (either a vscsi CD or mapping the USB controller to the
lpar if you fancy USB booting)

Best of luck!

Roberto

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 5:53 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Jack,

Am 04.04.2020 um 22:19 schrieb Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

:

While we're on the subject of antique systems:
If someone gifted me a P7 ...

P7, antique. :-D

What would it take to put Linux on it? Would I need to pay goblin gold

to IBM or a distro or can I just download an image and go?

Debian PPC64le (64-Bit PowerPC, little endian) images are readily
available from debian.org or Canonical (Ubuntu Server). As far as I know,
P8 was the first POWER to fully support LE mode, though.

All PPC and POWER have been big endian, and most Linux Distros ceased to
support big endian for unknown reasons. Maybe not enough demand?

Wow, I just looked and Debian again supports Big Endian! Hooray!

https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

If only I knew how to actually IPL an Image in a secondary LPAR. Last time
I checked (around one year ago), documentation about needed IPL parameters
in HMC and/or *NWSD objects was simply not detailed enough.

:wq! PoC

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