Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2004 08:17:43 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware |
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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 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?
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.
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