macmini g4 can't boot with new kernel

[Dave Young]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:12 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently built kernel 2.6.26-rc5 for my macmini g4, but it can't
>> boot. I'm not sure if it's related to kernel or yaboot, or the open
>> firmware.
>>
>> My distribution is yellowdog 6.1, config file attached
>>
>> After load the kernel , it reports:
>>
>> zImage starting : loaded at 0x004001f8 (SP:0x0023eea4)
>> Allocating 0xc04b26c1 bytes
>> ...
>> Invalid memory access at %SRR0 : 004020e4 %SRR1 : 00003030
>
> What are you trying to boot precisely ?

It's arch/powerpc/boot/zImage

>
> >From yaboot, I would suggest you try to boot a straight vmlinux rather
> than a zImage. The later's never been really supported.

Thanks a lot, I didn't know this before.
vmlinux works indeed.

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Regards
dave