Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:58:48 +1000 |
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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...
Ben.
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