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

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:03:42AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> 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?

This is indeed a possibility.

I will disable this again for the 2.4 floppies, and we will see tomorrow what
happens.

That said, the 2.6 floppies are too big to work with miboot without the
objcopy -O binary call, so we need to investigate this more in detail.

Friendly,

Sven Luther