On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:03:42AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 04:31 AM, Rick_Thomas wrote: > > >I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today. Now I get the Red "X" on > >the 2.4 boot floppy as well. > > > >I did an experiment... > > > >I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted the zImage file, > >uncompressed it, and compared it to the 2.4.25-powerpc-small kernel. > >They both claim to be the same kernel in that > > > > strings $file | grep 'Linux version' > > > >produces the same output for each file. Namely: > >Linux version 2.4.25-powerpc-small ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (version gcc 3.3.3 > >(Debian 20040401)) #1 mer avr 14 17:26:11 CEST 2004 > > > >But the two files differ according to "cmp". > > > >So I wonder if the process of compressing the kernel and putting it on > >the miboot floppy is somehow corrupting it? > > > >Rick > > > > > > > > OOOps... > > I missed the "objcopy -O binary" that was occurring in the log file. > > When I did that, the two files were identical. > > So the compression and copying to the floppy image are happening > correctly. > > Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?
This is indeed a possibility. I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow what happens. That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot without the objcopy -O binary call, so we need to investigate this more in detail. Friendly, Sven Luther
