Hello,
I got CentOS for PPC64 from this link http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64/ but it uses grub. I want to use CentOS on a PowerPC Freescale T2080 board with U-Boot as the boot loader. Is it available?
Thanks and regards
Jaytirth S. Khairatkar | Assistant Manager
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On 18/07/17 12:02, Jaytirth S Khairatkar wrote:
Hello,
I got CentOS for PPC64 from this link http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64/ but it uses grub. I want to use CentOS on a PowerPC Freescale T2080 board with U-Boot as the boot loader. Is it available?
Thanks and regards
Jaytirth S. Khairatkar | Assistant Manager
The CentOS 7 ppc64 and ppc64le variants are supposed to be installed on IBM Power (or compatible boxes, like Tyan or others, from the OpenPower consortium)
I didn't know that some dev board could exist that were targeting ppc. Are those board ppc64 compatible ? What is loaded by default on those ? Nothing would work "by default" from a CentOS side, but something could probably be done if you build a RootFS composed with the ppc64/ppc64le tree (depending on what's compatible with your board) and use uboot to chainload ?
Can you give more details about the available and running distros for that board ?
Hello,
The board currently provides its own Yocto Build Linux (OpenWRT based) which uses uboot.
Thanks and regards Jaytirth S. Khairatkar | Assistant Manager
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On 18/07/17 12:02, Jaytirth S Khairatkar wrote:
Hello,
I got CentOS for PPC64 from this link http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64/ but it uses grub. I want to use CentOS on a PowerPC Freescale T2080 board with U-Boot as the boot loader. Is it available?
Thanks and regards
Jaytirth S. Khairatkar | Assistant Manager
The CentOS 7 ppc64 and ppc64le variants are supposed to be installed on IBM Power (or compatible boxes, like Tyan or others, from the OpenPower consortium)
I didn't know that some dev board could exist that were targeting ppc. Are those board ppc64 compatible ? What is loaded by default on those ? Nothing would work "by default" from a CentOS side, but something could probably be done if you build a RootFS composed with the ppc64/ppc64le tree (depending on what's compatible with your board) and use uboot to chainload ?
Can you give more details about the available and running distros for that board ?
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