Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:40:31 +0200 | From | Olaf Hering <> | Subject | Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware |
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On Wed, Mar 31, 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 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...
This is fixed. your options: update to 2.6.5-rc3 disable modversions
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