Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP1 - ARCHITECTURE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION 15-03-2007 Supplementary Manual page 23

2.2.5 Booting from the CD-ROM Drive
Select the respective CD-ROM drive (3 in this example). The system reads from the
CD-ROM drive and displays the identstring.
->1 SUSE Linux SLES-9 (PPC)<-
After you select 1 , the yaboot utility is started.
Welcome to SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 (PPC)!
Type "install"
Type "slp"
Type "rescue"
Select install from the menu and press Enter . Alternatively, just press Enter to start the
installer, the default option.
To install from a network source (see
(page 14)), append manual to the kernel to install. For an installation over VNC,
append the parameters vnc=1 and vncpassword=password to install. Read
more about VNC in Section 4.1.1, "Simple Remote Installation via VNC—Static Net-
work Configuration" (Chapter 4, Remote Installation, ↑Installation and Administration).
In LPAR mode, the partition to install must have the CD-ROM in its partition profile.
If yaboot cannot be started, launch the loading process manually:
• Select OK from SMS and the firmware prompt appears.
• Check the alias list of the available devices: 0> devalias.
• Enter the boot string with the required alias (in this example: cdrom).
To boot a ppc64 kernel:
0> boot cdrom;,\suseboot\inst64
To boot a ppc32 kernel:
0> boot cdrom;,\suseboot\inst32
to start the YaST installer on this CD/DVD
to start the YaST install via network
to start the rescue system on this CD/DVD
Section 2.2.3, "Setting Up the Installation Source"
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