[Bug 26426] Re: yaboot cannot handle kernels and/or initrds >6MB uncompressed for netbooting

[Vagrant Cascadian]

the 6MB limit appears to be fixed in recent versions of yaboot, but now
there's a 16MB, and the ubuntu 12.04 powerpc64 kernels are larger than
this...

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #697813
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697813

** Also affects: yaboot-installer via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697813
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  yaboot cannot handle kernels and/or initrds >6MB uncompressed for
  netbooting

Status in yaboot-installer:
  Unknown
Status in “yaboot” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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.

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