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Re: Network boot



On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:35:06PM +0000, ppc-dev@storix.com wrote:
> 
> I am testing network boot using a vmlinux and initrd image on an IBM 7044-170. 
> Thanks to Paul Nasrat for info on how to get it to work on pSeries. However, 
> I have run into a problem. Yaboot does tftp requests and gets the yaboot.conf 
> file fine. Then attempts to get the kernel. It only transfers 6291456 bytes 
> of the kernel image and tries to execute it. (My kernel is 6352912 bytes). 
> The 6291456 byte limit is consistant. Even when I try larger/different files. 
> Anyone aware of where this limit is coming from?

this is a hard coded limit.  kernels must not exceed 6MB.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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