yaboot cannot handle kernels and/or initrds >6MB uncompressed for netbooting
Bug #26426 reported by
Rick Altherr
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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yaboot-installer |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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yaboot (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
With 5.10, the netboot images for powerpc and powerpc64 have exceeded 6MB uncompressed for either the kernel
(powerpc64) or the ramdisk (powerpc). Yaboot is unable to do a netboot with those images since they exceed a
limitation within yaboot that limits the uncompressed images to 6MB each. Ideally, work on yaboot2 will be
completed and this limitation will be removed, but in the meantime, the kernel and ramdisk images need to be pruned
for netbooting.
Related branches
Changed in yaboot: | |
assignee: | kamion → nobody |
Changed in yaboot-installer: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in yaboot-installer: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in yaboot-installer: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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Are you sure it's 6MB *un*compressed? I'm pretty sure that it's a limit on the
compressed size, since yaboot doesn't decompress the initrd itself. That makes
the problem rather more tractable; in fact, at the moment the Dapper netboot
images fit within that limit, although I should leave this bug open to make sure
it stays that way.