From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schaffner <schaffner@gmx.li>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401214031.GA22366@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080687527.1198.48.camel@gaston>
On Wed, Mar 31, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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...
This is fixed. your options:
update to 2.6.5-rc3
disable modversions
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USB is for mice, FireWire is for men!
sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-01 21:45 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
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 [this message]
2004-04-02 3:22 ` Martin Schaffner
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