"Smith, Stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Initially I thought x86 kboot on x86_64 hardware 'might' work. My > experiments using an x86 (aka i386) kboot did not provide useful > results. Given I'm not a kboot expert, it's possible I fat-fingered > something, although the kboot-10 bits worked on an x86 system? > I'll re-run the experiments, collecting the damage reports and forward. > > Given the failed x86 kboot experiments, I attempted to build kboot-10 on > an x86_64 RHEL distribution, encountering link failures (gcc build) due > to x86 arch assumptions in the build configuration (-m32 in > Makefile(s)). Odd. Still the arch of the binaries is minor. > My task is to get x86_64 kboot buildable and functional, any assistance > and/or directions you could provide would be greatly appreciated. There are two problems. A minimal environment that makes a cool bootloader. kboot. kexec working. Please test just /sbin/kexec under a normal environment and see how far you get. There are success reports from the s390 guys that they have a slightly modified kboot working in their 64bit environment. Eric _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
