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Re: Network boot



On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 09:19:57AM +0000, ppc-dev@storix.com wrote:
> 
> Why?

because yaboot 1.x memory management is totally broken.

> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 05:29 am, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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