On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:40:45AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > actually it's a Briq from Total Impact > > http://www.totalimpact.com i know nothing of this hardware. > device=/pci@FF500000/ethernet@7: > partition=0 > timeout=1 > default=linux > > image = vmlinux-nfs > label = linux > # root = /dev/hda2 > append = "console=ttyS0,9600 rw ip=on" > initrd=root.bin > initrd-size=8192 looks ok to me > If I comment out the initrd and initrd-size lines then the thing will boot > but when I try to boot with the file looking like this I get: > > <snip> > Elf32 kernel loaded... > Loading ramdisk... > dev_path = /pci@FF500000/ethernet@7 > file_name = root.bin > partition = 0 > dev_phandle = 001aa12c > device is a network device > of_net_open(dev:/pci@FF500000/ethernet@7, part: 0x00000000, name:root.bin > -> prom_open</pci@FF500000/ethernet@7:0,root.bin>... > -> 001a5d84 > Can't claim memory for TFTP download this means OpenFirmware would not allow yaboot to claim (sortof like malloc()) the memory it needs for the ramdisk. you could try using a smaller value for initrd-size, i think 4096 should be sufficient, for some reason we have needed more space on powermacs to get ramdisks to work reliably. > Ramdisk image not found. > ramdisk load failed ! this is a result of not being able to download the initrd. > Any ideas? its possible yaboot is not compatible with that hardware, in which case you need a different bootloader. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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