[Ps2hacking-devel] Redboot even fails to load Linux-2.4 kernel

[Takahide H. <tak...@hi...>]

Hi, hackers.

I'm trying to run Linux-2.4.6 kernel on PS2. 
I tried latest redboot (redboot.elf-010716) to load and boot it, then I
found the problem that redboot seems to fail to load 2.4.6 image.

The redboot start loading with the command 'load -m tftp vmlinux246',
then my ethernet hub start blinking but stops in a second.
and there is no response from redboot.

I think the problem is linux-2.4 specific because of following facts:

  o the redboot loads and boots /boot/vmlinux-2.2.1ps2 in the PS2Linux
    kit and other images built with cross compiler.
  o Boot loader in the PS2linux kit DVD disc loads my 2.4.6 kernel image
    from Memory Cards. I see some dmesg on the screen.
  o 2.4 ELF images have three entries in the program header, where 2.2
    ELF images have two entries.

I placed my (unfinished)vmlinux of 2.4.6 at:

 http://developer.hima.gr.jp/playstation2/vmlinux_246_0722.elf

Some (incomplete) dmesg will be on the screen if it successfully
start booting.

I appreciate your help very much.



BTW, is anyone also working on Linux-2.4 kernel?

--- Takahide Higuchi   e-mail: tak...@hi...