Efika 5200B Project
Testing PPC Linuxin category Operating Systems
proposed by fman on 8th February 2006 (accepted on 10th February 2006)
Hard disk added and Debian installed
posted by fman on 31st December 2006
Purchased a new 40GB 2.5 inch hard disk for the EFIKA and mounted it on the chassis.
Followed the instructions to boot the mother board using the DI installer from efika.info without any success. The EFIKA was unable to recognise either my 1GB flash disk or my 512MB flash disk.
Tried booting the EFIKA installed with my old Matrox G450, which while recognised by the x86 emulator built into the open firmware was not recongised by the DI kernel. A quick trip into work to retrive my Radeon 9200 and this is recognised fine. Usually I install most of my production OS's from the serial console and trying this from the EFIKA for install didn't work as expected, turns out I need to read a bit further down the manual, and ensure I use console=ttyPSC0 (I previously have just used ttyS0, so my fault)
I ended up booting the EFIKA from TFTP which worked 100% successfully and debian installed as per the instructions provided :)