- Issued:
- 2009-01-20
- Updated:
- 2009-01-20
RHBA-2009:0177 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
ppc64-utils bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated ppc64-utils package that enables netbooting on 64-bit PowerPC
platforms is now available.
Description
ppc64-utils is a collection of utilities for Linux running on 64-bit
PowerPC platforms.
This updated ppc64-utils package fixes the following problem:
- the kernel and initrd combined are now larger that the space allocated to
them by OpenFirmware. When a netboot is attempted the system falls back to
the OpenFirmware prompt with a message similar to this:
"initrd CORRUPTION. memory range 04312e6c 055ae3a8
Expected md5 52e82f59dbc739dc8af725879b7eec9a
Got md5 f0b1363efdb998ff3b4f2c42d71aeaff
initrd corrupted
EXIT called ok
0 >"
This new ppc64-utils package includes an updated addnote.c file. This file
does a binary edit that fills in the RPA-config section of the ELF header
such that OpenFirmware is then set up to properly handle the larger kernel
and initrd files.
Consequently, 64-bit PowerPC-based systems can netboot Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.3.
All users of Linux on 64-bit PowerPC-based systems should upgrade to this
updated package, which addresses this issue.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
ppc64-utils-0.11-10.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 97baf1b7acf408489b2db89e533897e0a6d551eb336f35e3f6ee740ce9c479ff |
ppc | |
ppc64-utils-0.11-10.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: b74272578c4b576a33feffefd14307a5de0da999b926f2ae54d8c3361ed60ada |
ppc64-utils-devel-0.11-10.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: de31b036b58236d0e6036a743b517f60a594e6e72f95b86d411efe4b9f34c397 |
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