DELO problems

DELO problems

[Karsten Merker]

Hallo everyone,

I cannot get delo to boot any recently built kernel - delo loads 
/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.

Booting older kernel images works without problems, also booting a current
ECOFF-kernel by tftp shows no problems. Installed is delo-0.7-7 (Debian
package). Can anybody confirm this behaviour?

I have tried building the kernels on different machines, but this does
not make a difference.

Greetings,
Karsten
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Re: DELO problems

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> [20011215 23:01]:
> I cannot get delo to boot any recently built kernel - delo loads 
> /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.

Flo posted a patch for this.  I will send it to you in private mail
and file a bug on delo (delo in Debian is up for adoption, btw).

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Re: DELO problems

[Florian Lohoff]

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:01:50PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> Hallo everyone,
> 
> I cannot get delo to boot any recently built kernel - delo loads 
> /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
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