On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Hi Triffid,
>
> Triffid Hunter wrote:
>> Error: unrecognized/unsupported machine ID (r1 = 0x00000163).
>
> That's an error resulting from the incorrect machine_id being embedded
> in RedBoot. I have no idea if it's fixed yet officially by TS. See the
> list history for the 2 methods to fix it.
>
> 1) just change the machine ID when compiling your kernel
> 2) dump the mtd device file to a .bin, edit it with hexedit, and replace
> it in the mtd device.
>
> 1) is much easier for the average person - I've put up 2 of the same
> kernels that I use (with / without the machine id modification in the
> kernel sources).
>
> http://vaiprime.visibleassets.com/~cfriedt/zImage-2.6-machine-id-0x2a1
> http://vaiprime.visibleassets.com/~cfriedt/zImage-2.6-machine-id-0x163
>
> 2) means that your kernel is portable if you compile support for more
> than 1 arch, which isn't very common anyway.
>
> Hope that helps ;-)
1 has been working fine for me so far, easier to change the kernel source
than the bootloader
> Good job patching your kernel too (in your later message) - it's a piece
> of cake, no?
sure is.. I think finding the ones I needed was the hardest part!
gentoo's crossdev tool and tinygentoo and lvm2 root (initramfs) howtos
were really helpful too although by now I've made enough initramfs' to set
up the system root without problems.. you may notice that my current
2.6.21 is a gentoo kernel ;)
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