{... booting trouble on an RS/6000 B50...}
Well, as I told, the boot partition had to be sized EXACTLY 4 Mb.
Otherwise,
0 > boot scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED] root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0 chrpboot
video=keep
hangs with code E140 which means "Unresolved problems" within PReP style
load, where not even the small reset button reboots the machine.
With the correctly sized /dev/sda1 of 4 Megabytes and yaboot (written by
mkofboot) it gives:
boot: failsafe
Please wait, loading kernel...
Elf32 kernel loaded...
chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x00400000
gunzipping (0x00010000 <- 0x00416470:0x004d96ec)...done 1924340 bytes
48568 bytes of heap consumed, max in use 40848
start address = 0x10000
instantiating rtas at 00600000 ... done
copying OF device tree...done
Calling quiesce ...
returning 00010000 from prom_init
and it hangs with code "7777".
within yaboot:
boot: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]:4,/boot/vmlinux-2.4.17-nomodules
root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0
Please wait, loading kernel...
Elf32 kernel loaded...
chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x00400000
gunzipping (0x00010000 <- 0x00416470:0x004d96ec)...done 1924340 bytes
48568 bytes of heap consumed, max in use 40848
start address = 0x10000
instantiating rtas at 00600000 ... done
copying OF device tree...done
Calling quiesce ...
returning 00010000 from prom_init
and it hangs with code "7777"
0 > setenv auto-boot true
0 > setenv boot-device scsi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
0 > setenv boot-file root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0
0 > setenv boot-command boot
0 > reset-all
then it booted like:
Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.9
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
Default supplied on the command line: root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0
boot: root=/dev/sda4 console=ttyS0
Please wait, loading kernel...
root=/dev/sda4:4,/vmlinux: Unable to open file, Invalid device
boot:
(I chose the kernel image failsafe from which I know it boots}
Please wait, loading kernel...
Elf32 kernel loaded...
chrpboot starting: loaded at 0x00400000
gunzipping (0x00010000 <- 0x00416470:0x004d96ec)...done 1924340 bytes
48568 bytes of heap consumed, max in use 40848
start address = 0x10000
instantiating rtas at 00600000 ... done
copying OF device tree...done
Calling quiesce ...
returning 00010000 from prom_init
and again "7777"
My temporary solution:
I dd your kernel linux.bin (the one without the modules) directly into
/dev/sda1 -> then it boots directly with no problem, so I guess yaboot
1.3.9 has difficulties.
BTW, mkofboot does not set the OpenFirmware variables, which does not
surprise me, as the kernel says it "cannot handle nvram with 4 addresses".
Salut
Mark
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Krisztian Mark Szentes
produktivIT - Open-Source Solution Provider
Siebenbrunnengasse 55/7
A-1050 Wien
