When netbooting a kernel with an initrd or initramfs that makes the image larger than 8 meg the firmware will kick out the kernel and go to the second boot device. However when the mkzimage script is used to create the image instead of 'make zImage' then the kernel/initrd will netboot. So this patch changes boot/zImage.lds to load the kernel at the same location that the mkzimage would set.
This has been boot tested on POWER5, POWER5+, blades and POWER6 systems successfully. signed off by: Mike Wolf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------ --- linux-2.6.16.46-0.12.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds 2008-01-07 14:51:05.000000000 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.16.46-0.12/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds 2008-01-07 14:31:14.000000000 -0600 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ENTRY(_zimage_start) SECTIONS { - . = (4*1024*1024); + . = (64*1024); _start = .; .text : { _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev