ppc initrd problem?

[Thomas Graichen]

Thomas Graichen <thomas.graichen at innominate.com> wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

>>>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.

> i have uploaded my test miniroot files at

>   http://innominate.org/~graichen/projects/miniroot/ppc/

> maybe it's a good start to look from

btw. i now also tried it with frsh yaboot (ybin) - 1.1.1 - still
the same problem ...

t

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