Re: 43p-140 install issues
On Thursday 13 January 2005 14:26, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 11:36, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:23:11AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 18:03, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > Alternatively, you can boot into d-i, and then chroot to your system,
> > > > install ssh or another network client, and move
> > > > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-powerpc to your /tftpboot partition.
>
> I did that, ftp-ing vmlinux, not vmlinuz. may be a mistake ?
> And netbooting gave this:
mea culpa! It was my fault!
netbooting with vmlinuZ..... is OK!
and vmlinux... is 3 october 2004 while vmlinuz is today.
(snip)
vmlinux is ELF
> And why an ELF on a PReP machine ?
>
> BTW, I believed that vmlinuz is compressed and vmlinux not, but in /boot,
> vmlinux is about 3 MB and vmlinuz about 6 MB.....
>
Just because vmlinux must be used with initrd.img right ?
Sorry, I ought to RTMF a little....
Now investigating why it won't boot from disk. I suppose a hardware disk
problem just after 3 MB on the PReP boot partition....
Friendly.
Felipe
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