ppc initrd problem?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Feb 25 11:48:58 EST 2001


>is there any known problem with initrd's on the ppc?
>
>i am currently trying to get a small initrd based standalone system
>working on the ppc like i did for the i386
>
>  http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/miniroot/
>
>to make the playing around with the xfs filesystem a bit more
>comfortable but it does not really boot on the ppc (new world
>mac, 2.4.1 kernel, SuSE 7.0/ppc) ...

It's a 32Mb initrd ? Well, it's possible that it gets broken then. I'm
not sure yaboot support such a large ramdisk. I'll give it a look.

Ben.

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