[parisc-linux] what is palo/lifimage for ?

[parisc-linux] what is palo/lifimage for ?

[Joerg Hartmann]

Hello ,

yesterday i installed a new kernel for my 720.
And now it works :)
But there are some questions left ...

The "Building the Kernel" webpage at
http://www.parisc-linux.org/kernel/index.html says
after "make palo" you have your new kernel in the file palo/lifimage.
But there is no pointer what to do after this :(
After some reading in the mailinglist archive i installed
palo/lifimage in /boot, edited /etc/palo.conf and run palo.

Then i booted my 720 just to see the message
"Couldn't grok your kernel executable format
ERROR: failed to load kernel" .

Half an hour later i found (with the help of "file")
that palo/lifimage is not the kenel image to boot,
it is vmlinux in the kernel-source dir.

So here comes the question: What is palo/lifimage for, or what
am i supposed to do with it ?
Is there another how-to for making/installing new kernels ?

-- 
Best regards,
 Joerg                          J.Hartmann@reinarts.de

Re: [parisc-linux] what is palo/lifimage for ?

[Helge Deller]

On Monday 17 December 2001 11:21, Joerg Hartmann wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> yesterday i installed a new kernel for my 720.
> And now it works :)
> But there are some questions left ...
>
> The "Building the Kernel" webpage at
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/kernel/index.html says
> after "make palo" you have your new kernel in the file palo/lifimage.
> But there is no pointer what to do after this :(
> After some reading in the mailinglist archive i installed
> palo/lifimage in /boot, edited /etc/palo.conf and run palo.
>
> Then i booted my 720 just to see the message
> "Couldn't grok your kernel executable format
> ERROR: failed to load kernel" .
>
> Half an hour later i found (with the help of "file")
> that palo/lifimage is not the kenel image to boot,
> it is vmlinux in the kernel-source dir.
>
> So here comes the question: What is palo/lifimage for, or what
> am i supposed to do with it ?
> Is there another how-to for making/installing new kernels ?

Hi Joerg,

palo/lifimage is the image for netbooting a kernel via tftp/bootp (it contains
parts of the palo bootloader binary).
linux/vmlinux is the kernel image for directly booting with palo from disk (palo
is loaded from your f0 partition and then looks for the kernel image in your
data (/boot) partition).

Greetings,
Helge

Re: [parisc-linux] what is palo/lifimage for ?

[Thomas Marteau]

Hi Joerg and all,

For you who want to see Linux on your favorite box, you can use the 
official HOWTO,
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PA-RISC-Linux-Boot-HOWTO/index.html

But, you also have some info here: http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/palo.html

And, the latest version of the HOWTO is here:
http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/parisc-linux-boot/parisc-linux-boot/index.html

Please do not hesitate to tell me if there is some section you like 
tosee in this paper. It could help some futur newbies :-)

Thomas.
ESIEE Team

Re: [parisc-linux] what is palo/lifimage for ?

[Grant Grundler]

Joerg Hartmann wrote:
> The "Building the Kernel" webpage at
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/kernel/index.html says
> after "make palo" you have your new kernel in the file palo/lifimage.

This is wrong. Soory about that.
This page is really oriented towards building
kernels with a X-compiler and then booting them via network.

I'm fixing this page now. I'll set up a link to a "How-to Build
for Net Boot" (which has the old page) and leave that for someone
else to edit.


thanks,
grant