From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc1-hems4-0-cust107.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.105.88.107]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3748B482A for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:31:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 00C32B00C; Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:30:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:30:15 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: marka@sea.checkpoint.com Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] installing a native built kernel with 2.4.0 (.92 dist). Message-ID: <20010918163015.Q19441@linuxcare.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from marka@sea.checkpoint.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:13:40PM -0700 List-ID: On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:13:40PM -0700, marka@sea.checkpoint.com wrote: > > I've successfully installed and upgraded with the .92 distro, but I'm having > trouble getting a natively built kernel with this distro to load. > > the load will either freeze at 'branching to kernel entry point' or > on the last time I rebuilt and copied, it complained: > > Couldn't grok your kernel executable format > failed to load kernel If you are netbooting, you use a lifimage, if you are booting from disk you use the vmlinux file produced from building the kernel. > this is with kernel-latest and palo-latest from Sep 7 on a b180l > > I select PA7300LC on 'make oldconfig' (this sets CONFIG_PA7100LC=y in > .config). The config we use for the official kernels is in arch/parisc/debian-configs/32, you can "make distclean; cp arch/parisc/debian-configs/32 .config; make oldconfig; make; cp vmlinux /boot/vmtest", then reboot, interact with IPL and change the vmlinux-whatever name to be vmtest. > Any tips from the pros on building and installing -latest natively? I'd > really like to get the fixes in 2.4.9, and there must be something more > interesting that needs to be done than copying/renaming lifimage over to /boot > and updating palo.conf and re-running palo. Don't copy lifimages to /boot, copy vmlinux. Richard