Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware

[Martin Schaffner]

On 30.03.2004, at 23:58, 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  [...]
> >
> > If I try to boot the stock kernel, OpenFirmware tells me "Claim
> > failed", and returns to the command prompt.
>
> 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 WAS cross-compiling, but the problem persists when compiling 
natively. I don't net-boot but load the image from a HFS+ partition. I 
can't boot

http://membres.lycos.fr/schaffner/vmlinux.orig

which is a compilation of linux-2.6.4 with

http://membres.lycos.fr/schaffner/.config

I can, however, boot

http://membres.lycos.fr/schaffner/vmlinux.patched

which is the same after the following patch:

http://membres.lycos.fr/schaffner/boot-of-works.patch

Maybe the problem is specific to the model of the machine?

Thanks,

Martin

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