Re: 43p-140 install issues

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

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:26PM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:
> 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)

Hehe, indeed.

> > 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....

More probably a size limit. Make sure you set MODULES=dep in
/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf. The initrd should be 1.5MB and the kernel 1.2 or
so yielding a kernel+initrd which is a bit below the 3MB.

Friendly,

Sven Luther