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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 2:57 pm    Post subject: Open Firmware and yaboot: Loading ELF... CLAIM failed Reply with quote

The whole story: I wanted to do a kernel update from hardened-sources-2.6.28-r7 to hardened-sources-2.6.32-r42. Using ybin -v, I managed to render my installation unbootable, only the Open Firmware boot prompt showed up (Reason: decrementer exception). I suspect that I should have run mkofboot -v before; I vaguely remember a yaboot update a while ago that - at least I believe so - caused this.

But the Gentoo installation CD (probably 2007.0) booted fine (pressing C during boot) and its yaboot version fixed this issue. The new kernel booted, but hang shortly after. I rebooted the old kernel and a few Internet searches later, I was sure to have tracked and fixed the error in kernel configuration: Another ybin -v (yes, from hard disk). You guessed right, the boot loader is on strike, again. But this time, I cannot boot my installation CD any more. Booting now drops me into Open Firmware boot prompt, regardless of which keys I press. The reason given is
Code:
Invalid memory access at   %SRR0: 00213318   %SRR1: 00003030


Fiddling with the prompt, I managed to find the command that should start yaboot - at least, I can hear the disk and there are no complaints about not finding the file:
Code:
boot cd:,\\yaboot
By replacing the c with an h, the command instead tries to load it from hard disk. Both variants print a load-size (HD: 2e658, CD: 23834), an adler32 checksum (HD: 7b5d7d3b, CD: 32ab01b2) and this:
Code:
Loading ELF

CLAIM failed


It’s a 1,5GHz G4 Mac mini (ppc32) (Apple PowerMac 10,2 4.9.4f1 BootROM built on 07/12/05 at 14:14:17). In the process, I cleared the NVRAM and wiped the Open Firmware settings a few times without much luck.

Do you have any ideas what to try next?
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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Make sure that you're booting the CD using the ppc32 kernel (type ppc32 at the prompt). The CD, by default, tries to boot a 64 bit kernel.
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PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The installation CD is an old one, it only sports a ppc32 kernel named apple. But the kernel is not my problem. I cannot start yaboot to select one.
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PostPosted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry, I missed your question the first time. I've never heard of this problem. Can you try another CD? Does OSX boot (even the installer CD)?
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