Getting started on POWER9

[Justin Hibbits]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:36:28 -0500
Ali Mashtizadeh <mashtizadeh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I was skimming through the mailing list archives and saw a few
> messages saying I could boot an OpenPower off a standard install
> image.  It seems that this isn't true for the USB key as petiteboot
> doesn't know what to do with it.  Is my only choice to install from
> the cd/dvd images?
> 
> Best,
> Ali

My understanding is the USB image has *never* worked, and the cd/dvd
images will work.  You can simply write the DVD image to a USB stick
and boot from it.  I did that for my initial install.

- Justin