On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Ebrahim Mayat wrote:
On Jul 31, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Jason DeVita wrote:
Ok, well, I've never made an initrd image, but from the man page, it looks
pretty simple. Like this:
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17.7.img 2.6.17.7
This generates the compressed archive as expected.
Try "man mkinitrd" or "info mkinitrd" to read about it. Then add the
"initrd" line back into yaboot.conf, but this time pointing to the new
initrd image:
initrd=/initrd-2.6.17.7.img
Done.
You might also consider pointing yaboot at the new system map with the
line:
sysmap=/System.map-2.6.17.7
(assuming that's what you called it.)
With and without the sysmap line, I get the same "Invalid memory access"
error. It seems that there still remains one or more omitted steps.
Just one more thing, if this is of any importance, which I doubt, in the
following section
[4] Build and install the kernel and modules
# make vmlinux
# make modules
Assuming no errors above
# make modules_install
# cp arch/ppc/boot/vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.17.7
# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.17.7
# ln -s /boot/System.map-2.6.17.7 /boot/System.map
I did "cp vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.6.17.7" since the "vmlinux" binary was in
the top-level directory and there was no "arch/ppc/boot" directory.
Thanks for all your help thus far.
Regards.
Ebrahim
Hmmph. I'm sorry to say, but you've got me stumped. You might want to
post a query on the yellowdog general list, and see of one of those smart
people knows what's going wrong. I wish I could help more, but I'm out of
ideas. I'll keep it in the back of my head, and if something comes to me
in my sleep, I'll let you know.
-J
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