David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:15, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Michel Lespinasse wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > 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. > > > > Maybe you can convert the initrd into a cpio archive and append it at > > the kernel image. I heard this is supposed to work, I haven't tried it > > myself. > It works, BUT you must build this as part of the kernel build (in recent > kernels only). If you try to append it later then, due to what I think > is a bug in objcopy, it fails.
I meant something like "cat initramfs.cpio >> kernel.img". I fail to see where objdump comes into play there. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
