Ebony Board, PPC440GP and NFS panics

[Brian Hawley]

At 03:11 PM 5/19/04 -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote:

>inird option has nothing to do with MAC address. MAC address is read by
>ebony.c directly from OpenBIOS VPD area (see ebony.c::ebony_setup_arch())
>regardless whether initrd is enabled or not.

I understand that.  The point I was trying to make is that with the MAC
address invalid,
we can not use the ebony_defconfig, because it wants to boot and use an NFS
root.

>Probably, you have erased this area on your box.
>
>You can hard code MAC address into ebony.c to see whether this helps you
>do go
>further in boot process.

I'll check ebony.c...the other place I noticed I could do that was in the
ethernet driver itself...

Thanks for the tip.

>Eugene.
>


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