Hi, On 29/12/2015 10:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Mark! > > On 12/29/2015 11:03 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> The a.out magic (0x107) is located at bytes 0x202-0x204 in the working >> image but appears at bytes 0x206-0x207 in the broken image. It looks >> like somehow your 64-bit SILO build is extending the a.out header fields >> from 32-bits to 64-bits which is why the bootloader fails to be detected >> by the PROM. > > Great work, you're absolutely right. The offsets for the magic are > different when comparing both isofs.b files. My suspicion is that there > is maybe a patch we need on sparc64 that's missing. >From memory the conversion to a.out is done by the elftoaout binary from sparc-utils. It maybe that the problem lies in there rather than in silo itself.
Regards Richard > > @Jose: Any idea? > > Adrian >
