Re: miboot

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

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:42:13AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:18 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:56:50 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 03:22:37PM +0000, rob rob wrote:
> > >> Hello all,
> > >> I have a powerpc 6500/275 and am trying to install debian etch with the
> > >> floppy images from ~wouter, or the beta3 from debian for that matter.
> > >> Everything works fine until I insert the net-install.img. Through mail
> > >> contact with piotras, after "erroneously" posting on the
> > >> debootloaders-miboot list, i found out that all the recent net-install
> > >> images are too big for a floppy. I also found the following post which
> > >> makes reference to this fact:
> > >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/09/msg00823.html Is anybody
> > >> looking into this? Is this right list? Should I be posting this on
> > >> debian-boot@lists.debian.org?
> > > 
> > > Yes, debian-boot is the right place for that.
> > > 
> > > Friendly,
> > > 
> > > Sven Luther
> > 
> > There is some kind of "debootloaders-miboot" list? Why was I not aware of
> > that? Got URL?
> 
> It's to be noted that the miboot images generated by the kernel are
> busted and have been so for a loooong time (possibly most of 2.6.x). We
> found that only recently.

Indeed, but the debian miboot images where done by hand (usinz gzip and
stuff).

> That should fix it:

He, neat, i will integrate this in mkvmlinuz :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther
> 
> Index: linux-tika/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-tika.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile	2006-09-26 11:36:30.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-tika/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile	2006-09-26 11:39:51.000000000 +1000
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
>  
>  quiet_cmd_gen-miboot = GEN     $@
>        cmd_gen-miboot = $(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPY_MIB_ARGS) \
> -		       --add-section=$1=$(word 2, $^) $< $@
> +		       --add-section=$2=$(word 2, $^) $< $@
>  
>  quiet_cmd_gencoff = COFF    $@
>        cmd_gencoff = $(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPY_COFF_ARGS) $@ && \
> 
> 
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