[CentOS-devel] Is it possible to ran CentOS 7.2 ppc64 on PowerVM

[Bryson Lee]

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> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 2:00 AM
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> Is it possible to ran CentOS 7.2 ppc64 on PowerVM ?
> CentOS's initd is 37Mb, when AFAIK
> Powervm has some constrains about initrd (<= 32Mb).

Hi Vit,

We have 7.2 ppc64 running on an IBM 812L under PowerVM.

The initrd size limit AFAIK is a yaboot limitation for TFTP netboot rather than something related to PowerVM, so you have to use grub2 for the netboot instead.

IBM has a DeveloperWorks wiki page with a recipe for doing this:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/Netbooting%20on%20POWER%20-%20An%20Introduction

Regards,

-Bryson
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