From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Martin Schaffner <schaffner@gmx.li>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:58:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080687527.1198.48.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <321B041D-8298-11D8-AC61-0003931E0B62@gmx.li>
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 08:18, Martin Schaffner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to boot linux-2.6.4 from OpenFirmware on my Apple iBook2 (dual
> USB). I'm using the image named "vmlinux.elf-pmac". While linux-2.4.25
> boots fine, linux-2.6.4 doesn't without the following modifications:
>
> http://membres.lycos.fr/schaffner/howto/linux26-boot-of.txt
>
> (I found this procedure by trial and error, by mixing stuff from 2.4
> into the build of 2.6.)
>
> If I try to boot the stock kernel, OpenFirmware tells me "Claim
> failed", and returns to the command prompt.
>
> Does anybody have an idea what is the cause of this?
That's strange, I do such netbooting everyday on a wide range of
machines without trouble. Are you using some kind of cross compiler ?
Maybe there are some issues with cross compiling of the boot wrapper...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-30 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-30 22:18 booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware Martin Schaffner
2004-03-30 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-03-31 11:58 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-04-01 1:17 ` Martin Schaffner
2004-04-01 15:17 ` Tom Rini
2004-04-01 21:40 ` Olaf Hering
2004-04-02 3:22 ` Martin Schaffner
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