From: "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: macmini g4 can't boot with new kernel
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:05:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8e1da0806150405j3e97a7e2s2b66f1edf04f72ff@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213513445.8129.91.camel@pasglop>
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 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 ?
It's arch/powerpc/boot/zImage
>
> >From yaboot, I would suggest you try to boot a straight vmlinux rather
> than a zImage. The later's never been really supported.
Thanks a lot, I didn't know this before.
vmlinux works indeed.
--
Regards
dave
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2008-06-15 4:12 macmini g4 can't boot with new kernel Dave Young
2008-06-15 7:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-06-15 11:05 ` Dave Young [this message]
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