On Thursday 13 January 2005 14:26, Philippe Guyot wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:36, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Alternatively, you can boot into d-i, and then chroot to your system, > > > > install ssh or another network client, and move > > > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-powerpc to your /tftpboot partition. > > I did that, ftp-ing vmlinux, not vmlinuz. may be a mistake ? > And netbooting gave this:
mea culpa! It was my fault! netbooting with vmlinuZ..... is OK! and vmlinux... is 3 october 2004 while vmlinuz is today. (snip) vmlinux is ELF > And why an ELF on a PReP machine ? > > BTW, I believed that vmlinuz is compressed and vmlinux not, but in /boot, > vmlinux is about 3 MB and vmlinuz about 6 MB..... > Just because vmlinux must be used with initrd.img right ? Sorry, I ought to RTMF a little.... Now investigating why it won't boot from disk. I suppose a hardware disk problem just after 3 MB on the PReP boot partition.... Friendly. Felipe
