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<DIV dir=ltr align=left>First,<FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=906275111-04022010> <FONT color=#000000 size=3
face="Times New Roman">"G'DAY </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT>OZLABS!" from
the founder of IBM Ozlabs. I miss you guys. Maybe you can help me out. <BR><BR>I
want to netboot yaboot with the yaboot.conf , real linux kernel and real
initrd <SPAN class=906275111-04022010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial><FONT color=#000000 size=3
face="Times New Roman">i</FONT></FONT></SPAN>nside an outer initrd.<SPAN
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face=Arial> </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=906275111-04022010><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial><FONT color=#000000 size=3
face="Times New Roman">The systems I want to boot are completely
diskless.</FONT> </FONT> </SPAN> <BR>Here is how I build the outer initrd
and the bootable<FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=906275111-04022010><FONT
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find . | cpio -H newc -ov | gzip -9 > /tmp/yinitrd.gz<BR>/usr/bin/mkzimage
/root/yaboot-1.3.14/second/yaboot no no /tmp/yinitrd.gz
/usr/share/ppc64-utils/zImage.stub netyaboot<BR><BR>I am using the rhel5 version
of mkzimage. <BR>Here is my yaboot.conf <BR><BR>[root@blade01 etc]# cat
/boot/yaboot.conf<BR><BR>init-message=Welcome to netboot yaboot !\nHit
<TAB> for boot
options<BR><BR>timeout=80<BR>delay=5<BR>nonvram<BR><BR>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5<BR>label=stage1<BR>read-only<BR>initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.el5.img<BR>append="console=hvc0"<BR><BR>I
then network booted the file netyaboot and this is the problem I get.
<BR><BR>zImage starting: loaded at 0x00300000 (sp: 0x02e1ffe0)<BR>Allocating
0x22e6c bytes for kernel ...<BR>trying: 0x00700000<BR>OF version =
'IBM,MB246_060_009'<BR>Allocating 0x33ae75 bytes for initrd ...<BR>trying:
0x00723000<BR>initial ramdisk moving 0x723000 <- 0x321402 (0x33ae75
bytes)<BR>initrd head: 0x1f8b0800<BR>gunzipping (0x700000 <-
0x30ad80:0x321402)...done 0x22e6c bytes<BR>... skipping 0x10000 bytes of ELF
header<BR>kernel:<BR>entry addr = 0x710000<BR>a1 = 0x723000,<BR>a2 =
0x33ae75,<BR>prom = 0x2039a68,<BR>bi_recs = 0x0,<BR>Error: Linux kernel returned
to zImage bootloader!<BR>EXIT called ok<BR><BR><SPAN
class=906275111-04022010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial> <FONT
color=#000000 size=3 face="Times New Roman">Any help? Thanks.
</FONT></FONT></SPAN><BR><BR>Greg<SPAN class=906275111-04022010>
Rodgers </SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>