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Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:58:24 +0100
From: Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>
To: Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>
Cc: debian-mips@lists.debian.org, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: DELO problems
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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:01:50PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> Hallo everyone,
>=20
> I cannot get delo to boot any recently built kernel - delo loads=20
> /etc/delo.conf, finds the correct kernel image and loads it,
> printing "Loading /boot/vmlinux ....... ok", but when the kernel
> itself should be startet (and print "This DECstation is a ...."),
> I get the firmware prompt again.

Have a look at the elf file with readelf - It shows a section which has
a len > 0 and the load address is "0" - When copieng the sections i
overwrite important stuff - This is actually a binutils fault not a
delos one. Although i have been told that i can heavily optimize the
stuff by not dealing with the sections rather than segments. I will
change that.

Flo
--=20
Florian Lohoff                  flo@rfc822.org             +49-5201-669912
Nine nineth on september the 9th              Welcome to the new billenium

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