Re: 2.6.5-pre* does not boot on my PReP PPC

[Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>]

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Meelis Roos wrote:
| Recent 2.6.5-pre* and -rc1 and -BK don't boot on my Motorola Powerstack
| (PReP with no RTAS but with OF).
|
| I use netboot to test new kernels.  Normally, the screen is changed to
| VGA text mode and the bootloader speaks some lines of info and asks for
| the kernel command line. Now, the image is loaded via tftp (as shown by
| tcpdump, the last datagram is smaller) and nothing more happens. The
| cursor stays where it is - at the beginning of the Booting ... line in
| graphics mode OF environment and that's all.
|

are you sure this is not the issue "Blank screen after decompressing
kernel" described here:

http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt

| Make sure your .config has
|   CONFIG_INPUT=y
|   CONFIG_VT=y
|   CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
|   CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y

i really like to hear what your PowerStack is doing after booting. i
still have severe issues with 2.5/2.6 on my PReP...

Christian.
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BOFH excuse #227:

Fatal error right in front of screen
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