public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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

-- 
USB is for mice, FireWire is for men!

sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG

  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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20040401214031.GA22366@suse.de \
    --to=olh@suse.de \
    --cc=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=schaffner@gmx.li \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox