From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Michael Büsch" <m@bues.ch>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0 boot failure on the Powerbook G4
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:07:30 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311509250.25044.583.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110723222034.6757604b@maggie>
On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 22:20 +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
> Linux 3.0 fails to boot _very_ early on my Powerbook G4. See the
> yaboot/OF screenshot:
> http://bues.ch/misc/linux-3.0-pbook.jpg
>
> Linux 2.6.39.2 boots fine.
> Does somebody have an idea?
Interesting, that's before it even kills OF. Are you booting a zImage or
a vmlinux ?
It might be also useful to compile yaboot with debug output enabled to
figure out where the kernel is loaded so we can try calculating where
exactly it dies if it's a vmlinux...
Cheers,
Ben.
> The config can be found here:
> http://bues.ch/misc/linux-3.0-ppc-config
> It's mostly equivalent to the working 2.6.39 config. I enabled
> early OF console, but that didn't help to show better error messages.
>
> The machine is a:
>
> cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
> clock : 1499.999000MHz
> revision : 1.2 (pvr 8003 0102)
> platform : PowerMac
> motherboard : PowerBook5,6 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
> detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15")
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-24 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-23 20:20 Linux 3.0 boot failure on the Powerbook G4 Michael Büsch
2011-07-24 12:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-07-24 12:10 ` Michael Büsch
2011-07-24 12:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-07-24 12:37 ` Michael Büsch
2011-07-24 23:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-07-25 13:03 ` Michael Büsch
[not found] <20110723222034.6757604b__32574.6897528463$1311473425$gmane$org@maggie>
2011-07-24 8:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-24 10:37 ` Michael Büsch
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