Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Schaffner <> | Subject | Re: booting 2.6.4 from OpenFirmware | Date | Fri, 2 Apr 2004 04:22:06 +0100 |
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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!
-- Martin Schaffner
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