From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TILO
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:03:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051007170311.GM10856@swissdisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051007111932.GA28286@core.upi.iki.fi>
What happens when you load these via "boot net"?
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:19:32PM +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I don't know if someone of you already know, but i've been working on
> target named: CentOS-4/sparc.
>
> I hjaev been collecting/merging patches, building, testting, building
> again past two or so months maybe. Finally having my vacation and time
> to work full time with the problem
>
> I did try generate installation images few day ago and realized that i
> can't make working TILO-images with anything. Tried even extracting the
> tools from Aurora 1.0 to my running system (which made a little diff.
> sized images), but those are not booting.
>
> Is there some magic i am not avare of and should that TILO just handle
> 2.6 kernel allright?
>
> Personally i don't see any point making public a distro that can't be
> installed with 'boot net'.
>
> Below is example of process, which does load, but usually die with
> 'Illegal Instruction'. I think i saw 'MMU missmatch' or something once
> on Netra/X1.
>
> [root@c4sp sparc]# tilo -o test.img vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EC-UNSTRIPPED
> initrd64.img
> Converting vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EC-UNSTRIPPED (sun4u) to a.out:
> PT 0 Entry: Loadable to 0x400000[0x3335d0] from 0x0[0x2c6086] align
> 0x100000
> PT 1 Entry: unknown
> Compressing vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EC-UNSTRIPPED.raw:
> vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EC-UNSTRIPPED.raw: 54.5%
> Sizes (sun4u):
> raw size = 2891910
> packed size = 1316731
> root address = 00000000007335d0
> Root image packed size = 2052036
> WARNING: Kernel for Sun4c/m/d not specified
> Images are large. Will load on machines with at least 5M mapped by PROM
> only
> TILO size = 3385579
>
>
>
> TIA,
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-07 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-07 11:19 TILO Pasi Pirhonen
2005-10-07 17:03 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2005-10-07 18:22 ` TILO Pasi Pirhonen
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