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SubjectRe: 3.4.0-rc1: No init found
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 at 10:18, Christian Kujau wrote:
> > > PS: Unfortunately I cannot boot into the old (3.3-rc7) kernel
> > > right now (which is still installed via "yaboot" and present in
> > > /boot), because of this:
> > > http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.4.0-rc1/init/mac-invalid-memory.JPG
> > > Booting into Debian's "squeeze" kernel (2.6.32) which resides in
> > > the same /boot directory succeeds.
> >

FYI, upgrading to yaboot 1.3.16-4 from Debian/testing did the trick, I can
now boot the "old" (3.3.0) kernel[0].

The "No init found" problem with 3.4.0-rc1 remains of course :-\

Thanks,
Christian.

[0] http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.4.0-rc1/init/yaboot.conf.txt
http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.4.0-rc1/init/ls-boot.txt

> > Hrm, did it used to boot ?
>
> I'm using the "backup" kernel only when the new one has an issue, so I
> have not tested it for a while, but it used to work, for sure.
>
> > Can you do printenv in OF and tell me what
> > your load-base, real-base, virt-base etc... are ?
>
> load-base is 0x800000, real-base and virt-base is set to "-1", please see
> http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.4.0-rc1/init/printenv-1.JPG
>
> Not sure if this is related, but at the end of each kernel compilation,
> the following messages are printed:
>
> ------------
> SYSMAP System.map
> SYSMAP .tmp_System.map
> WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.pmac
> INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x6e52f8) overlaps the address of the wrapper(0x400000)
> INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x700000)
> WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.coff
> INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x6e52f8) overlaps the address of the wrapper(0x500000)
> INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x700000)
> WRAP arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.miboot
> INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x6d4b80) overlaps the address of the wrapper(0x400000)
> INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x700000)
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST 24 modules
> ------------
>
> I started to see these messages in January (around Linux 3.2.0), but never
> investigated what it was since the produced kernels continued to boot just
> fine.
>
> > Might also be worth updating yaboot, debian should have 1.3.16 nowadays.
>
> Debian/stable still has 1.3.13a, I'll try to install 1.3.16 from
> Debian/testing.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Christian.
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