Hello,
Can someone has any advice about netbooting Apple Mac PowerBook G4 based to install FC6 ? or has a status about it ?
I try to use yaboot from TFTP server with the OpenFirmware command " boot enet:0,yaboot ".
the vmlinuz file is successfully transfered, the ramdisk.image.gz transfert begins but fail to be achieved with the following error:
Transfer FILE: /ppc32/fc6/ramdisk.image.gz method 'load' failed 00000300 ramdisk load failed !
I've also tried with the netboot image via yaboot, but it fails with the same error message the previous one (for ramdisk.image.gz).
It also fails if trying to boot it directly from OpenFirmware (" boot enet:O,/ppc32/fc6/netbooot-ppc32.img "). BTW, is it a right method to load it, or the use of yaboot is required ?
Some googling seem to indicate that the file to load via yaboot are too big ?
So I've built the last yaboot available from sources (1.3.14-rc1), but errors messages remain the same.
I've also tried to load vmlinuz/ramdisk.image.gz of FC7-t2, but it also fails.
Did I missed something ?
Also is it a yaboot limitation while booting from network ? no such limitations while booting from a physical media (cdrom) ?
I must say that this is pretty difficult to find some infos. about this :( and the Fedora wiki pages about PPC is pretty tiny.
Thanks in advance for any tips !
Pierre BOURGIN
Hello,
I confirm the 6 MB barrier for file transmitted via TFTP. I don't know if this limitation comes from yaboot or the Apple's OpenFirmware.
I was finally abble to launch the installation of the FC6 from the network thanks to yaboot/TFTP by reducing the ramdisk.image.gz file from 6.2 MB to 5.3 MB.
In details, I unpacked ramdisk.image.gz and removed some drivers I do not need from its modules/modules.cgz file (qlogic / hba drivers, JFS and XFS support) and upated configuration files in modules/ .
Does Fedora project plan to provide ramdisk.image.gz < 6 MB in the future ?
my $ 0.02
Pierre Bourgin
Pierre Bourgin a écrit :
Hello,
Can someone has any advice about netbooting Apple Mac PowerBook G4 based to install FC6 ? or has a status about it ?
I try to use yaboot from TFTP server with the OpenFirmware command " boot enet:0,yaboot ".
the vmlinuz file is successfully transfered, the ramdisk.image.gz transfert begins but fail to be achieved with the following error:
Transfer FILE: /ppc32/fc6/ramdisk.image.gz method 'load' failed 00000300 ramdisk load failed !
I've also tried with the netboot image via yaboot, but it fails with the same error message the previous one (for ramdisk.image.gz).
It also fails if trying to boot it directly from OpenFirmware (" boot enet:O,/ppc32/fc6/netbooot-ppc32.img "). BTW, is it a right method to load it, or the use of yaboot is required ?
Some googling seem to indicate that the file to load via yaboot are too big ?
So I've built the last yaboot available from sources (1.3.14-rc1), but errors messages remain the same.
I've also tried to load vmlinuz/ramdisk.image.gz of FC7-t2, but it also fails.
Did I missed something ?
Also is it a yaboot limitation while booting from network ? no such limitations while booting from a physical media (cdrom) ?
I must say that this is pretty difficult to find some infos. about this :( and the Fedora wiki pages about PPC is pretty tiny.
Thanks in advance for any tips !
Pierre BOURGIN
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:43 +0100, Pierre Bourgin wrote:
Hello,
I confirm the 6 MB barrier for file transmitted via TFTP. I don't know if this limitation comes from yaboot or the Apple's OpenFirmware.
I was finally abble to launch the installation of the FC6 from the network thanks to yaboot/TFTP by reducing the ramdisk.image.gz file from 6.2 MB to 5.3 MB.
In details, I unpacked ramdisk.image.gz and removed some drivers I do not need from its modules/modules.cgz file (qlogic / hba drivers, JFS and XFS support) and upated configuration files in modules/ .
Does Fedora project plan to provide ramdisk.image.gz < 6 MB in the future ?
The plan is to rewrite the malloc implementation in yaboot to cope with bigger images, there are some patches out there - it needs some co-ordinated testing.
Would you be happy to help the testing?
Paul
Paul Nasrat a écrit :
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:43 +0100, Pierre Bourgin wrote:
Hello,
I confirm the 6 MB barrier for file transmitted via TFTP. I don't know if this limitation comes from yaboot or the Apple's OpenFirmware.
<snip>
Does Fedora project plan to provide ramdisk.image.gz < 6 MB in the future ?
The plan is to rewrite the malloc implementation in yaboot to cope with bigger images, there are some patches out there - it needs some co-ordinated testing.
fine ! I'm currently (try to) re-using some Apple hardware to do s/macOSX/fedora-ppc/ig :-)
Would you be happy to help the testing?
Yes, if it's not too complicated: I have only one Xserve G4 and a PowerBook G4, and no stable environment (yet) with FC6/PPC. If it's just testing a yaboot binary from our TFTP server (ISC dhcpd) to launch FC6 networked installation, no problem ;-)
Paul