A question about zImage when booting from HD

[VALETTE Eric]

>>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <paubert at iram.es> writes:

Gabriel> On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Simone Piccardi wrote:

Gabriel> Well, I don't think so. I'm also very surprised since I have a very
Gabriel> similar setup and I have never seen this command fail (NetBoot is another
Gabriel> story), the length in /dev/sda3 is correct. 

Gabriel> What is your verssion of PPCBug ? 

Gabriel> Can you try PBOOT;A and PBOOT;V ? 

Gabriel> 	Regards,
Gabriel> 	Gabriel.


I had a lot of problem on MPC750 to have PBOOT working with the
same archive than via the NBO command. The reason was a byte swapping
problem in the IDE low level command.

What is actually at vger does not work on my board. I have to patche the kernel
with the following patch :

*** ./arch/ppc/kernel/prep_setup.c~	Fri Jun  4 22:30:47 1999
--- ./arch/ppc/kernel/prep_setup.c	Tue Jul  6 17:00:39 1999
***************
*** 629,641 ****
  void
  prep_ide_insw(ide_ioreg_t port, void *buf, int ns)
  {
! 	_insw((unsigned short *)((port)+_IO_BASE), buf, ns);
  }
  
  void
  prep_ide_outsw(ide_ioreg_t port, void *buf, int ns)
  {
! 	_outsw((unsigned short *)((port)+_IO_BASE), buf, ns);
  }
  
  int
--- 629,641 ----
  void
  prep_ide_insw(ide_ioreg_t port, void *buf, int ns)
  {
! 	ide_insw((unsigned short *)((port)+_IO_BASE), buf, ns);
  }
  
  void
  prep_ide_outsw(ide_ioreg_t port, void *buf, int ns)
  {
! 	ide_outsw((unsigned short *)((port)+_IO_BASE), buf, ns);
  }
  
  int
***************
*** 688,693 ****
--- 688,694 ----
  void
  prep_ide_fix_driveid(struct hd_driveid *id)
  {
+   	ppc_generic_ide_fix_driveid(id);
  }
  
  __initfunc(void




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