Hi folks, Before I start off, I'll make two things clear - I'm an idiot :) - I haven't worked with Linux in a couple of years, but I HAVE re-read the docs
Anyhow, I have a SPARCstation 5/110 running potato. I was previously using NetBSD, but decided to install Linux as well when I obtained a TCX (NetBSD's tcx and sx support is nil for 24-bit). I'm not going to use Solaris just for 24-bit video. I grabbed the 2.2.19 sources, trimmed down the config, and did a "make dep" and "make vmlinux" as shown by the docs. The problem comes whenever I try to boot a kernel. I enter the kernel name at the "SILO boot:" prompt, and after SILO attempts to load my custom kernel, it craps out after loading the image with a message "fatal error: can't read loadable segment in your ELF image". I searched a couple of SPARC-related mailing-lists, and I've noticed a common theme of the kernel which fails with this error being identified by file as a "32-bit ELF relocatable, not stripped", while working kernels are identified as "32-bit ELF executable, statically linked, stripped". My kernel falls into the former category, and a vain attempt to strip the kernel didn't help at all. What exactly am I doing wrong here? Why is my kernel being built dynamically, not-stripped, and as a "relocatble"? It boggles my mind... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's so much bullshit in space that there couldn't possibly be any good reason for any god to wish to create it.
