> >Actually, a lot of people succefully boot Ebony using stock IBM boot >loader (me >included) > >Please, post boot log for the _default_ Ebony configuration (using IBM >bootlader >_not_ u-boot and build with ebony_defconfig), maybe we can help you.
We're in the process of trying to get the IBM bootloader to work. We think perhaps what came with the board from the vendor was somehow not correct. So, we are trying to find another source for the IBM bootloader that we can flash. The ebony_defconfig doesn't have support for initrd, and since, at present, the EMAC driver seems to only find ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as the Mac address, we aren't able to boot over the network [ ebony_defconfig default bootargs ]. Am I correct in assuming that u-boot will not be capable of booting linux on the ebony regardless? It does appear to boot linux okay, but we haven't been successful in getting it to mount the ramdisk [ which is in u-boot format -- although we've also tried just the ramdisk_image.gz and pRamdisk directly tftp'd into memory ]. And, with the network MAC address issue, we haven't had any luck with the network stuff either. Thanks for offering assistance. -- Brian ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
