On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Alex Shnitman wrote:

	Hi,

Also, is there anything special I should know about booting Linux from
dink32? Here's what I did, and how it failed. I got the latest kernel
snapshot from fsmlabs (I tried the same with both the latest 2.2 and
2.3 trees). I set in the Makefile ARCH := ppc and CROSS_COMPILE :=
powerpc-linux- (the prefix for the tools that I have installed, on my
Debian box, from www.emdebian.org). "make menuconfig", there I made
sure I have support for serial console, there I also set the boot
command line (PReP command line it says) to "console=ttyS0,9600
console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram" (I don't really have initrd yet, I want
to see the kernel booting first). Then make zImage, which compiles
fine, "file arch/ppc/boot/zvmlinux" tells me it's indeed a PowerPC ELF
image, then I zsrec it to an srec file (I tried all kinds of offsets
-- does it matter?), then I upload it to the PowerPC box, then I "go"
to that offset, and then it just hangs...

You can't start an ELF image from jumping at it sload address. But I know
only PPCBUG and OF, not your firmware.

	Gabriel.


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