From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Graichen Reply-To: Thomas Graichen Subject: Re: ppc initrd problem? Date: 25 Feb 2001 08:33:49 GMT Message-ID: References: <19350119182042.5890@smtp.wanadoo.fr> To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 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 -- thomas.graichen@innominate.com innominate AG the linux architects tel: +49-30-308806-13 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/