At 03:11 PM 5/19/04 -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote: >inird option has nothing to do with MAC address. MAC address is read by >ebony.c directly from OpenBIOS VPD area (see ebony.c::ebony_setup_arch()) >regardless whether initrd is enabled or not.
I understand that. The point I was trying to make is that with the MAC address invalid, we can not use the ebony_defconfig, because it wants to boot and use an NFS root. >Probably, you have erased this area on your box. > >You can hard code MAC address into ebony.c to see whether this helps you >do go >further in boot process. I'll check ebony.c...the other place I noticed I could do that was in the ethernet driver itself... Thanks for the tip. >Eugene. > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
