On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:24:48PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 22, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > No, wait... we really want to use yaboot. > > And, are you sure yaboot works on PReP machines ? Not on CHRP boxes > I really don't know. > But at least on CHRP machines it *should* be used.
Unless you don't want to. I believe that having yaboot.udeb installable on pmac_newworld and chrp(all) should be ok, we can then make a prep_installer which would be lower priority than yaboot but higher than nobootloader, so prep user will get it, and chrp-rs6k users can get it in expert mode if they want to. > > > I used to dd the kernel on my B50 but had to stop after upgrading to 2.6 > > > because newer kernels cannot be loaded without a boot loader. > > Mmm, have you more info on this ? I have no problem booting my > > pegasos/chrp with the 2.6.4 builtin chrp boot-loader. > I do not remember the details, but OF would try to load the kernel and > then go back to the prompt with some error message. I discussed this > with the PPC kernel hackers and everybody agreed that I should just use > yaboot. Mmm, strange. > > BTW, can you test the 2.4.25-4 kernel on this B50 of yours ? It should > > work, but it was never really tested. > It's a remote box, sorry. :-) Ah. > > > To install yaboot /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot must be prepared with > > > /usr/lib/yaboot/addnote and then copied to the PReP partition. > > > yaboot is able to load plain zImage kernels. > > Ah, i had the understanding that yaboot only understands plain > > uncompressed elf vmlinux kernels. > I confirm this: > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-b50: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, > version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1558724 Feb 20 02:35 > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-b50 Ok. Maybe it only doesn't work on pmacs then. Friendly, Sven Luther