Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware

[Martin Schaffner]

On 01.04.2004, at 16:17, Tom Rini wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 02:17:24AM +0100, Martin Schaffner wrote:
> > 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 suspect that there's some ELF sections which need to be dropped.
> Can you do an objdump -x on the vmlinux.elf-pmac with and without that
> patch and tell us which names are missing from the working one?  
> Thanks.

http://membres.lycos.fr/schaffner/objdump-x-diff

The problem is probably that the image of 2.6.4 has two LOAD commands.

On 01.04.2004, at 22:40, Olaf Hering wrote:

> This is fixed.  your options:
> update to 2.6.5-rc3
> disable modversions

Yes, 2.6.5-rc3 works. Thank you!

--
Martin Schaffner

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