Re: miboot

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:18 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:56:50 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 03:22:37PM +0000, rob rob wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >> I have a powerpc 6500/275 and am trying to install debian etch with the
> >> floppy images from ~wouter, or the beta3 from debian for that matter.
> >> Everything works fine until I insert the net-install.img. Through mail
> >> contact with piotras, after "erroneously" posting on the
> >> debootloaders-miboot list, i found out that all the recent net-install
> >> images are too big for a floppy. I also found the following post which
> >> makes reference to this fact:
> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/09/msg00823.html Is anybody
> >> looking into this? Is this right list? Should I be posting this on
> >> debian-boot@lists.debian.org?
> > 
> > Yes, debian-boot is the right place for that.
> > 
> > Friendly,
> > 
> > Sven Luther
> 
> There is some kind of "debootloaders-miboot" list? Why was I not aware of
> that? Got URL?

It's to be noted that the miboot images generated by the kernel are
busted and have been so for a loooong time (possibly most of 2.6.x). We
found that only recently.

That should fix it:

Index: linux-tika/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-tika.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile	2006-09-26 11:36:30.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-tika/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile	2006-09-26 11:39:51.000000000 +1000
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
 
 quiet_cmd_gen-miboot = GEN     $@
       cmd_gen-miboot = $(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPY_MIB_ARGS) \
-		       --add-section=$1=$(word 2, $^) $< $@
+		       --add-section=$2=$(word 2, $^) $< $@
 
 quiet_cmd_gencoff = COFF    $@
       cmd_gencoff = $(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPY_COFF_ARGS) $@ && \