On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:40:45PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:32:45PM -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > > Richard Smith wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Perhaps we could make a tweak to kexec so it could load memtest? > > >> > > >>I thought it could ... > > >> > > > > > >kexec maybe but kbl-kexec dosen't like it. I just tried and got 'not a > > >bzImage'. > > > > > In the source code for kbl-exec, the source code that purports to > > support ordinary ELF > > images is commented out with "#if 0". > > > > See work/kexec-boot-loader/kexec-boot-loader/kexec/kexec.c line 191 and > > kexec-x86.c line 93. > > > > Personally, I think this is a Bad Thing. Why should it only be possible > > to boot something > > that is in a complicated format that is only used by the Linux kernel? > > The reason for commenting out the code is the 1MiB size constraint. The > assumption was that the OLPC BIOS would only boot Linux kernel's. >
Err.. > You're free using the original kexec-tools from buildrom/packages/ which You're free to use the original kexec-tools from www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/ > supports static ELF binaries (memtest86 is supposed to boot via kexec, > though I haven't tried it myself). _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
