Ok, I know this has been asked before... I've had problems getting both woody and potato CHRP images to work on this IBM RS/6000 43P-240
You can see the gory details (system info, environment, terminal captures of attempted boots) at the following link. http://wikihip.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Mike/IbmRs6000 Anyways, I am interested and I am able to spend some time working on this to get this to get a working kernel. I don't know very much about how this work, but would guess that the CHRP bootloader is having a problem. Here is the boot log (from CHRP woody) <snip> RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 RS/6000 memory keyboard network scsi speaker ok 0 > boot floppy:,\linux root=/dev/ram video=ofonly load_ramdisk=1 INIT-PROGRAM: ELF-LOADER Endian mode : Load Address = 500000 signature 0x7f454c46 : 7f454c46 class 0x01 : 1 ei_data 0x01 : 2 ei_version 0x01 : 1 type 0x0002 : 2 machine 0x0014 : 14 version 0x00000001 : 1 entry 0x02001b40 : 400000 phoff 0x00000034 : 34 shoff 0x000180f4 : e320c flags 0x00000000 : 0 ehsize 0x00000034 : 34 phentsize 0x00000020 : 20 phnum 0x00000002 : 2 shentsize 0x00000028 : 28 shnum 0x0000000a : c shstrndx 0x00000008 : 9 No ELF note section found in the image !!! Number of program headers : 2 pheader # 1 ------------------------------------- type = PT_LOAD offset = 10000 vaddr = 400000 paddr = 510000 filesz = 59f0 memsz = 59f0 flags = 5 align = 10000 about to $sync-cache ... ... done with $sync-cache pheader # 2 ------------------------------------- type = PT_LOAD offset = 159f0 vaddr = 4159f0 paddr = 5159f0 filesz = cd79c memsz = ced64 flags = 6 align = 10000 about to $sync-cache ... ... done with $sync-cache exiting ELF section exit INIT-PROGRAM: ELF-LOADER chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x400000 CLAIM failedavail_ram = 4e5000 gunzipping (0x10000 <- 0x415cb8:0x4e306c)...done 1934704 bytes start address = 0x10000 copying OF device tree... </pre> At this point the machine is frozen, the front panel displays a code of =F05= Is there any more information I could provide that would help determine the problem? Will cross-compiling powerpc kernels on a x86 machine myself? Is anyone else working on getting Linux running on a 43P-240 or similar machine? Thanks ... ... Mike -- Michael Kustaa Gindonis Helsinki Institute of Physics, Technology Program [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wikihip.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Main/MichaelGindonis
