RE: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel
As far as I know, some time after 2.6.8, the kernel file format changed a little bit that needed a newer aboot loader, too (see changelog of aboot). Since this time milo is no longer working:
+ * Add support for booting >= 2.6.23 kernels, needed for etchnhalf. This
+ was corrected in 1.0~pre20040408-1 with the following change, originally
+ from Steve Langasek:
+ - Update bootlx to ignore ELF header sections not of type PT_LOAD when
+ loading the kernel, so that the new PT_NOTE sections in 2.6.23rc1 and
+ above don't cause load failures. Thanks to Richard Henderson for the
+ patch.
+
+ -- dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 14 May 2008 02:38:35 -0600
Uwe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Piotrek Gliźniewicz [mailto:glizda@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:39 AM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrading Sarge to Etch - failing to boot new kernel
>
> W dniu 2010-06-18 01:11, Matt Turner pisze:
> > 2010/6/17 Piotr Gliźniewicz<glizda@gmail.com>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to install Debian on my 164LX with AlphaBIOS. Since the newest
> >> DVD I can boot from MILO (I'm using the one provided on the Woody
> DVD) is
> >> Sarge, I installed it and begun upgrading to Etch (as advised in the Lenny
> >> readme). I've done a clean, default install of Sarge. Then I upgraded to the
> >> 2.6.8-4 kernel from the Sarge DVD and it worked without problems.
> What I've
> >> done to upgrade to Etch:
> >>
> >> commented out Sarge CD in /etc/apt/sources.list >> apt-cdrom add (with
> the 1st Etch DVD) >> aptitude update >> aptitude upgrade >> aptitude
> install initrd-tools >> aptitude install linux-image-2.6-alpha-generic >>
> shutdown -r now >> >> At this point I can't boot the system with MILO. I'm
> trying to do it with a >> command similar to the one I used to boot the 2.6.8-
> 4 kernel:
> >>
> >> boot sdb6:vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-alpha-generic
> >> initrd=initrd.img-2.6.18-6-alpha-generic root=/deb/sdb7 >> >> Disk is
> partitioned to the Sarge default structure.
> >> sdb5 is the space reserved for aboot (empty) >> sdb6 is /boot (ext2 -
> MILO is not able to read ext3) >> sdb7 is / (ext3) >> sdb8 is swap >> >> It
> seems MILO loads the image, but then fails to boot (it displays >>
> bootfile=<some odd characters>.
> >>
> >> Any hints how to start it?
> >>
> >
> > Do you have a compelling reason to use AlphaBIOS/MILO?
> >
> > Matt
>
> This machine is dual-booting NT and Debian Sarge, so AlphaBIOS is the only
> possibility. And the flash chip can either contain AlphaBIOS or SRM. I know it's
> possible to start the machine with SRM on a floppy, but this is what I'm trying
> to avoid. Since the 2.6.8 kernel booted, it confirms that MILO is capable of
> booting newer kernels, but it seems it fails to load the image properly to
> memory. I guess it might be possible to generate the loaded image in some
> legacy format? I noticed that during the kernel upgrade the imagerd is
> generate by some tool, so maybe I should look here (it's initrd what loads
> vmlinuz, right?)?
>
> --
> piotrek
>
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