On Mar 22, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, wait... we really want to use yaboot. > And, are you sure yaboot works on PReP machines ? Not on CHRP boxes I really don't know. But at least on CHRP machines it *should* be used.
> > I used to dd the kernel on my B50 but had to stop after upgrading to 2.6 > > because newer kernels cannot be loaded without a boot loader. > Mmm, have you more info on this ? I have no problem booting my > pegasos/chrp with the 2.6.4 builtin chrp boot-loader. I do not remember the details, but OF would try to load the kernel and then go back to the prompt with some error message. I discussed this with the PPC kernel hackers and everybody agreed that I should just use yaboot. > BTW, can you test the 2.4.25-4 kernel on this B50 of yours ? It should > work, but it was never really tested. It's a remote box, sorry. :-) > > To install yaboot /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot must be prepared with > > /usr/lib/yaboot/addnote and then copied to the PReP partition. > > yaboot is able to load plain zImage kernels. > Ah, i had the understanding that yaboot only understands plain > uncompressed elf vmlinux kernels. I confirm this: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-b50: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1558724 Feb 20 02:35 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-b50 -- ciao, | Marco | [5238 adnS7z6YvJOAU] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
