Re: Problem netbooting Linux 2.2.x

[Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de>]

Hello,

Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> >>But starting with Linux 2.2.5 i get all sort of kernel crashes, mostly
> >>during boot, but some times also during normal operation. The crashes
> >>are sporadic and happen at random, so i first thought it was a hardware
> >>problem. But with 2.0.36 all is ok.
> 
> >I seriously doubt if mknbi-linux would be the source of your problems. It
> >has a simple job to do, just put the kernel image inside a tagged
> >image.

Actually, it's not that simple. Unfortunately, they changed the layout of the
first couple of sectors in the Linux kernel image slightly, which caused the
mknbi-linux loader to crash (but you are right: mknbi-linux itself isn't the
source of the problem, it's the loader which gets included by mknbi-linux).

>   However please note that there are still some serious bugs in the
>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> kernel
> ^^^^^^^

This problem is a bug in the IP auto configuration code, which prevents
the kernel from getting all required information for NFS root mounting
from the bootrom. This bug has been fixed recently, so you should use
any of the later 2.2.x versions (I can't tell you exactly which is the
first version which fixes the problem) - best you use the latest 2.2.x
kernel available.

gero.

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