From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Newport Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:27:21 +0000 Subject: Re: MrCoffee Problem from i386 server Message-Id: <432968A9.8080701@netunix.com> List-Id: References: <43296329.1050001@kbc.net.au> In-Reply-To: <43296329.1050001@kbc.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Matthew Smith wrote: >Hi > >I have been trying to get Linux - any Linux - to work with my MrCoffee >Javastation. > >My server setup: > >Suse Linux 9.2/x86 >rarpd V1.1 >isc-dhcpd V3.0.1 >tftpd V0.39 Release 2.2 > >MrCoffee is running OpenBoot 2.30 and has 65Mb of RAM. > >After a few network problems, which I cleared up with my friend Mr >Tcpdump, the Javastation can get an address and load a boot file. > >The problem is that EVERY file I try to send gives the "The file just >loaded does not appear to be executable\nok" error. > >My research regarding this messages suggests that the files I am sending >are not in aout format. However, I question this, as the problem occurs >with the latest version of Prol (which I don't think I really need as >I've got the old firmware), the pre-compiled kernels presented in the >HOWTO and also a Slackware kernel that is supposed to work. > >Would all of these have been presented in a non-aout format, or is there >something else going on here, like some sort of file corruption in the >transmission process? > >On a related matter - just where does one get elf2aout for Linux/x86? >All the Google references I found were for NetBSD. I managed to find >one version of elf2aout.c but, when I tried to compile it, I found that >I was lacking a large number of dependencies. > >Unfortunately, I don't have any other Sun hardware to play with at the >moment > > There is a good, but slightly dated, complete kit in Splack. Choose a mirror from http://www.splack.org/ and download splack/sparc/splack-8.0/javastation/* Please read the instructions