From: Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.linux.ppc.dev@innominate.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: ppc initrd problem?
Date: 25 Feb 2001 08:33:49 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <news2mail-97ag1d$52i$3@mate.bln.innominate.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19350119182042.5890@smtp.wanadoo.fr
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>is there any known problem with initrd's on the ppc?
>>
>>i am currently trying to get a small initrd based standalone system
>>working on the ppc like i did for the i386
>>
>> http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/miniroot/
>>
>>to make the playing around with the xfs filesystem a bit more
>>comfortable but it does not really boot on the ppc (new world
>>mac, 2.4.1 kernel, SuSE 7.0/ppc) ...
> It's a 32Mb initrd ? Well, it's possible that it gets broken then. I'm
> not sure yaboot support such a large ramdisk. I'll give it a look.
thanks a lot - btw. also tried it with 16M - same thing - compressed
initrd image hangs and an uncompressed loads but seems to have only
trash in it ("cannot find init" while /sbin/init is definitely in it)
t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-25 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-24 20:40 ppc initrd problem? Thomas Graichen
2001-02-24 22:13 ` Thomas Graichen
2001-02-25 0:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-02-25 8:33 ` Thomas Graichen [this message]
2001-02-25 8:43 ` Takashi Oe
2001-02-25 9:06 ` Thomas Graichen
2001-02-26 12:33 ` Michael Schmitz
2001-02-27 7:16 ` Thomas Graichen
[not found] ` <97fk7t$rb$1@mate.bln.innominate.de>
2001-03-03 0:18 ` Thomas Graichen
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