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Subject: Re: macmini g4 can't boot with new kernel
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:12 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently built kernel 2.6.26-rc5 for my macmini g4, but it can't
> boot. I'm not sure if it's related to kernel or yaboot, or the open
> firmware.
> 
> My distribution is yellowdog 6.1, config file attached
> 
> After load the kernel , it reports:
> 
> zImage starting : loaded at 0x004001f8 (SP:0x0023eea4)
> Allocating 0xc04b26c1 bytes
> ...
> Invalid memory access at %SRR0 : 004020e4 %SRR1 : 00003030

What are you trying to boot precisely ?

>>From yaboot, I would suggest you try to boot a straight vmlinux rather
than a zImage. The later's never been really supported.

Cheers,
Ben.