On Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:06, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > 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. > that may not work if there is already an INITRAMFS section in the kernel image. I think it also does not work with the ELF version of the kernel.
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