Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware

[Marco d'Itri]

On Mar 31, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 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...
I experienced the same problem (2.4.x kernels would boot from OF, 2.6.x
would not) on my B50 machines, I may even have discussed it with you on
IRC.
I did not try to debug this further and I started using yaboot.

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ciao, |
Marco | [5461 tro7jFYIQ7uH6]
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