On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:36:51AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Michel Lespinasse wrote: > > In other words, it was all my fault. Now I'm trying to figure out how to > > convince gxemul to start a debian kernel with the debian initrd... > > I wonder why this is a problem, the DECstation installer images already > contain the initrd. If gxemul is good enough at emulating a DECstation > harddisk/cdrom you can boot from the mini.iso installer image. If the > emulator supports netboot, then the boot.img should work. > > The separate kernel and initrd binaries are only needed to build bigger > CD images. The delo package contains the 'delo' and 't-rex' commands > to create bootable images.
What happens is that t-rex builds an ecoff image, I suppose this is what the firmware on a real decstation would boot. However gxemul does not have any firmware, it only knows how to load an ELF file and get it started. Well supposedly it should also be able to load a binary file such as the initrd image, but for some reason I've been unable to figure out the glue to make that work. So what I need is the debian kernel + initrd image in a single ELF file. The way to go apparently is to build a kernel with the mips config option CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK so that the initrd image is embedded with the kernel image. I'll try that tomorrow and see what happens. Incidently this is also how I got confused as I did not know my kernel image had such an embedded initrd image (with the sarge installer... grumpf :) Cheers, -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse "Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
