Re: Power Mac 6100/66

[Ernest Demaret <ernest.demaret@infinity-box.nl>]

Op 15-sep-05 om 20:04 heeft Sven Luther het volgende geschreven:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 07:36:11PM +0200, Ernest Demaret wrote:
> > Op 15-sep-05 om 18:38 heeft Sven Luther het volgende geschreven: 
> >
> > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:19:30PM +0200, Ernest Demaret wrote: 
> > >
> > > > Was the error output of the 2.4.27-nubus kernel installation of 
> > > > any  
> > > > help?  
> > > > If you'd like me try or test on my 8100/110, please let me know. 
> > > > I  
> > > > would be glad to be of help.  
> > >
> > > You can ignore it, for some reason it tries to run mkvmlinuz on it, 
> > > which is 
> > > not for it. Can you look at the content of /boot and output it here 
> > > ?  
> >
> > Completely empty... 
> >
> >
> > > Maybe you could just unpack the package by hand 
> > > (dpkg-deb -x kernel-image...nubus...deb /tmp/place) and see what 
> > > happened, i 
> > > have the same problem here. Do you have mkvmlinuz installed ?  
> >
> > Didn't even know it excisted. I'll install and try unpacking the kernel 
> > like you suggested. I'll let you know. 

The result:

debian1:/tmp/place# ls
boot    lib    usr
debian1:/tmp/place# mkvmlinuz -o /boot -a coff -k vmlinux-2.4.27-10-nubus-coff -d /tmp/place/boot -n -v
=== Building for sub-architecture coff.
=== Using kernel image file vmlinux-2.4.27-10-nubus-coff.
=== Release version seems to be 2.4.27.-10-nubus-coff.
=== Using object files from /tmp/place/boot.
=== Building a bootable compressed kernel image in /boot.
=== Doing build in /tmp/tmp.XhYC1p.
=== Creating compressed kernel image vmlinux.gz...
objcopy -0 binary vmlinux-2.4.27-10-nubus-coff /tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/vmlinux
objcopy: 'vmlinux-2.4.27-10-nubus-coff' : No such file
gzip /tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/vmlinux
gzip: /tmp/tmp.XhYC1p: No such file or directory
=== Putting everything into ELF image file image.o...
objcopy -R .comment /tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/image.o
objcopy: '/tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/image.o': No such file
pbjcopy /tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/image.o /tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/image.o --add-section=.image=/tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/vmlinux.gz --set-section-flags=.image=contents,alloc,load,readonly,data
objcopy: '/tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/vmlinux.gz' : No such file
objcopy: '/tmp/tmp.XhYC1p/image.o' : No such file
=== Creating bootable kernel image file vmlinux.coff...
Sorry, I do not know how to handle PowerPC sub-architecture coff in version 2.4.27.-10-coff.
=== Cleaning up...

Please explain me what happend.

Regards,

Ernest Demaret