Linux 3.0 boot failure on the Powerbook G4

Michael Büsch m at bues.ch
Sun Jul 24 20:37:39 EST 2011


On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:06:03 +0200
Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> Michael Büsch <m at bues.ch> writes:
> 
> > Linux 3.0 fails to boot _very_ early on my Powerbook G4. See the
> > yaboot/OF screenshot:
> > http://bues.ch/misc/linux-3.0-pbook.jpg
> >
> > Linux 2.6.39.2 boots fine.
> > Does somebody have an idea?
> 
> Perhaps your image is getting too large?

I reduced the image size, so that it's way less than the
2.6.39 kernel size (old is 2.6.39. a is 3.0)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.6M Jul 24 12:16 /boot/linux.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.3M Jul 23 20:50 /boot/linux.old

But that didn't help. :(

I'm currently trying to bisect it, but that turns out to be hard
due to various compile issues and stuff like that...

-- 
Greetings, Michael.


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