Re: Red X -- was: Re: new oldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies, root size should be ok, net_drivers still too big, please test.

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Sunday, August 29, 2004, at 04:31 AM, Rick_Thomas wrote:

> I tried the new 2.4 PowerMac floppys today.  Now I get the Red "X" on
> the 2.4 boot floppy as well.
>
> I did an experiment...
>
> I mounted the 2.4 boot floppy and extracted the zImage file,
> uncompressed it, and compared it to the 2.4.25-powerpc-small kernel.
> They both claim to be the same kernel in that
>
>     strings $file | grep 'Linux version'
>
> produces the same output for each file. Namely:
> Linux version 2.4.25-powerpc-small (root@pegasos2) (version gcc 3.3.3
> (Debian 20040401)) #1 mer avr 14 17:26:11 CEST 2004
>
> But the two files differ according to "cmp".
>
> So I wonder if the process of compressing the kernel and putting it on
> the miboot floppy is somehow corrupting it?
>
> Rick

OOOps...

I missed the "objcopy -O binary" that was occurring in the log file.

When I did that, the two files were identical.

So the compression and copying to the floppy image are happening 
correctly.

Is it possible the objcopy is corrupting it?

mumble...

Rick