Eric W. Biederman wrote: > "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.
Will do. > > There are success reports from the s390 guys that they have a slightly > modified kboot working in their 64bit environment. Good news. > > Eric Thanks. _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
