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SubjectRe: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware
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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!

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Martin Schaffner

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