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Re: old world nonsense, please rectify



On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 13:54 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:41:58AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sunday 22 October 2006 10:20, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > What is the exact problem ? I'm pretty sure I had 2.6.18 booting fine on
> > > a couple of oldworld boxes here before relase. (A fix for IDE on some
> > > performa went in later on, I think in 2.6.18.1)
> > 
> > The problem I see here (even on newworld), is that 32mb is too little memory 
> > for kernel (4.3mb) plus initrd (5mb, both compressed sizes).

4Mb compressed ? wow that's a pretty loaded config... the one I use on
my laptop is only 2Mb compressed.

> Ah, ...
> 
> Can you try :
> 
>   1) using yaird instead of initramfs-tools, or initramfs-tools with the
>   modules=dep option.
> 
>   2) use the powerpc-miboot flavour instead of the powerpc one.
> 
> And inform us if any of those help.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
> 



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