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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Boot command 
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Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 13:30:16 -0700
From: Paul Bame <bame@noam.fc.hp.com>
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= ext2_open(/boot/vmlinux)=3
= Couldn't gork your kernel executabel format failed to load kernel
= Failed to load Kernel.

That should be "grok" :-)  Apparently you're not using cut/paste for
these error messages.

This is PALO saying that /boot/vmlinux is neither elf32, elf64, nor SOM
format.  I'm guessing, based on some earlier advice I gave when you
were net-booting, that you may have a lifimage there by mistake -- you
need a kernel instead, for example from
ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/kernels

To tell for sure, run 'file vmlinux' on that file.  If you get
    vmlinux: 8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
that's probably a lifimage.  You should get this instead:
    vmlinux: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PA-RISC, version 1, statically linked, not stripped


	-P