2.4.27, alpha arch, make bootimage and make bootpfile fails

Norbert Preining
2004-10-12T17:39:07Z

Hello kernel Gurus!

[debian/woody on alpha sx165/lx164, gcc-3.3.4]

We need to netboot our alphas (because booting from the SCSI controllers
is not an option, they are not supported by the SRM console) and I try
to make a bootp image of our kernel.

When doing this on our alpha the
make bootimage
and the
make bootpfile
both bail out with:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/arch/alpha/boot'
tools/objstrip -v /usr/src/linux-2.4.27/vmlinux vmlinux.nh
tools/objstrip: extracting 0xfffffc0000310000-0xfffffc00005cfef8 (at
2000)
tools/objstrip: copying 2883320 byte from /usr/src/linux-2.4.27/vmlinux
tools/objstrip: zero-filling bss and aligning to 0 with 393432 bytes
echo "#define KERNEL_SIZE `ls -l vmlinux.nh | awk '{print $5}'`" >
ksize.hT
cmp -s ksize.hT ksize.h || mv -f ksize.hT ksize.h
rm -f ksize.hT
ld -static -T bootloader.lds head.o main.o
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/arch/alpha/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/arch/alpha/lib/lib.a -o bootloader
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/lib/lib.a(vsprintf.o): In function `vsnprintf':
vsprintf.o(.text+0xcd4): undefined reference to `printk'
vsprintf.o(.text+0xcdc): undefined reference to `printk'
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/lib/lib.a(dump_stack.o): In function `dump_stack':
dump_stack.o(.text+0x10): undefined reference to `printk'
dump_stack.o(.text+0x1c): undefined reference to `printk'
make[1]: *** [bootloader] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.27/arch/alpha/boot'
make: *** [bootimage] Error 2

and similar with bootpfile

Is there a way around this, we definitely need the bootp image.

Thanks a lot and all the best

Norbert

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