[coreboot] [PATCH] mkelfImage: set kernel_alignment so 2.6.31+ work

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Thu May 20 20:56:48 CEST 2010


Troy Telford <ttelford.groups at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, May 19, 2010 05:42:36 am Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> The kernel initialization code as of boot protocol 2.10 is now reading the
>> kernel_alignment field.  With the field left the kernel attempts to align
>> things to 4GB which is unlikely to work, so change the alignment to the
>> kernels normal value of 16MB so newer kernels process by mkelfImage will
>> boot.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
>
> I've applied the patch and built it.  (Twice - once against svn, and once 
> against 2.7.0.  It doesn't seem to matter).
>
> The change to work for any of the machines I'm trying it on (mostly the old 
> HDAMA LinuxBIOS machines, but some newer hardware as well).

Odd.  That change was enough to get it to work in my testing.
In the case that doesn't reboot now could you try adding
an earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 to your command line?  With a little
luck that will give you some output.

Eric

> I'm creating the .ebi using the following:
> ./mkelfImage vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-0.6-default \
> --initrd=initrd-2.6.32.12-0.6-default \
> --command-line="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 panic=60" test.ebi
>
> and loading it using kexec as follows:
> ./kexec -l ./test.ebi
> ./kexec -e
>
> The serial console returns the following:
> Starting new kernel
> Firmware type: LinuxBIOS
> Copying LinuxBIOS to ram.
> Jumping to LinuxBIOS.
> LinuxBIOS-1.1.8.10Normal Thu Jul 28 09:16:27 MDT 2005 rebooting...
>
> With similar results on a PCBIOS machine (ie. it reboots)
>
> If I boot using Linux/PC BIOS and etherboot, the behavior is slightly 
> different:
> Searching for server (DHCP)...
> ...Me: 10.0.1.1, Server: 10.0.10.1, Gateway 10.0.10.1
> Loading x-slam://10.0.10.1:10006/239.192.0.131:10006 .....(ELF)... done
> Firmware type: LinuxBIOS
>
> and:
> Searching for server (DHCP)...
> ...Me: 10.0.1.2, Server: 10.0.10.1, Gateway 10.0.10.1
> Loading x-slam://10.0.10.1:10006/239.192.0.131:10006 .....(ELF)... done
> Firmware type: PCBIOS
>
> And that's all that happens.  It doesn't reboot, but there is nothing else 
> returned, even with kernel verbosity cranked up to full, or waiting 20 minutes 
> or so in case the serial console is disabled...




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