Hey folks-- I'm trying to create a grub-based rescue USB stick for PowerPC machines.
I've successfully gotten one machine to boot to this device, and grub can see both the USB disk itself and the onboard (ide) HD. However, when i try to load a linux kernel from either disk, i get an error: grub> linux (hd)/boot/vmlinux-2.6.25-2-powerpc DEFAULT CATCH!, code=300 at %SRR0: 00013ae4 %SRR1: 00003030 (this is from my scribbled notes, not from a serial console, unfortunately). at this point, i get dropped to openfirmware, but it's in a sufficiently weird state that even "mac-boot" doesn't work for me. If i reboot the machine, i can boot normally (via ofboot/yaboot combination off of onboard disk). This is with 1.96+20080724-5 and the kernel from debian lenny. The machine in question is an old iBook (clamshell model) with 96M of RAM, described by lshw as: product: iBook (first generation) vendor: Copyright 1983-1999 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved Any thoughts about what i might need to do to get grub to boot a linux kernel properly? Should i try to load something different from grub? Regards, --dkg 0 clam:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 740/750 temperature : 54-56 C (uncalibrated) clock : 299.999997MHz revision : 131.0 (pvr 0008 8300) bogomips : 33.15 timebase : 16644650 platform : PowerMac machine : PowerBook2,1 motherboard : PowerBook2,1 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 64 (iBook (first generation)) pmac flags : 0000000d L2 cache : 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld 0 clam:~#
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