From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Thomas Graichen <thomas.graichen@innominate.com>,
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Subject: Re: ppc initrd problem?
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 01:48:58 +0100
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>is there any known problem with initrd's on the ppc?
>
>i am currently trying to get a small initrd based standalone system
>working on the ppc like i did for the i386
>
>  http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/miniroot/
>
>to make the playing around with the xfs filesystem a bit more
>comfortable but it does not really boot on the ppc (new world
>mac, 2.4.1 kernel, SuSE 7.0/ppc) ...

It's a 32Mb initrd ? Well, it's possible that it gets broken then. I'm
not sure yaboot support such a large ramdisk. I'll give it a look.

Ben.

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