Re: Kernel 6.9 fails to boot with "can't boot dump kernel from OF"

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi Reimar,

> On Jul 6, 2024, at 5:09 PM, Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> The newest 6.9 powerpc kernel build seems to be incompatible with OpenFirmware boot,
> so boot fails on my PowerPC macMini.
> The error message is
> "Error: You can't boot a kdump kernel from OF!"
> The error message seems not entirely accurate, it seems the issue is that
> CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START
> is no longer 0, which probably comes from
> CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
> being set.
> Can this be reverted?

Could you verify that this change actually fixes the problem? This would save me some work.

Also, we need to figure out whether this change was made upstream or in Debian.

Adrian
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