Oh! That worked perfectly, thank you.
Is the changelog in question viewable somewhere? the one I was referring to, bundled into the tarball for 1.3.17 from yaboot.ozlabs.org, doesn't go past 1.3.13. All the info I had on more recent versions came from the project homepage, which as you can probably see, is pretty sparse. Thanks again. I was really not looking forward to fiddling with it much more. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:39:22AM -0700, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote: > > Attempting to boot a Powerbook over the network has been a frustrating > > endeavor. I did it once in the past with this machine, installing > > Lenny. It seems little has changed, except that now it doesn't work. > > Here's a snippet of output: > > > > Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13 > > Enter "help" to get some basic usage information > > boot: install > > Please wait, loading kernel... > > > > CLIENT: [mac address] [IP] > > SERVER: [mac address] [IP] [Hostname] > > Transfer FILE: vmlinux [it pauses here for a little bit] method 'load' > > failed 00000300 > > > > Can't read Elf e_ident/e_type/e_machine info > > boot: > > > > > > Looking through the mailing list archives, it looks like the problem > > is that the kernel image is too large, at 6.7 MB, for yaboot to > > successfully load it. (does anyone test the functionality of the ppc > > netboot images anymore?) > > > > Is there any way to cut it down to 6 MB or less? Perhaps by using an > > older kernel, or excluding some of the fancier features? My research > > indicates that 6 MB's as large as yaboot 1.x.x will go. > > > > Additionally, yaboot 1.1.13 is more than eight years old now. 1.1.17 > > is out and has been since last october, and includes, among other > > things, improved netboot functionality, with IPv6 support and such. (i > > suspect they'll be releasing 1.1.18 in the near future, since the > > release schedule looks to be once a year or so) I think it's still > > limited to 6 MB max kernel size. > > That would be sad. > > > Until it's been fixed, can you give me some tips? like, can I replace > > the vmlinux image and initrd image, without having to assemble a > > custom mini.iso? where should I look for info on the recommended > > procedure? my google work hasn't been very fruitful so far, so i > > though I'd ask the experts. > > wheezy has a newer yaboot version. Maybe it would work. Could try and > see if it boots or not. Would be a clue at least. > > Changing the kernel would require a custom iso since the modules have > to match the kernel. > > The yaboot in wheezy (1.1.16) has a changelog entry that mentions fixing > support for kernel+initrd that uncompressed is bigger than 12MB. That is > probably the issue you are hitting. 1.3.16 should have at least 20MB > now for the uncompressed kernel+initrd, and on some systems even more > than that. > > -- > Len Sorensen >
