I also thought similar, but: - make bzImage within stock 2.6.9 gives me zImage.elf - when trying to boot Ebony with it I have:
Booting from [EMAC0] Ethernet 0 ... Sending bootp request ... Loading file "zImage.elf" ... Sending tftp boot request ... Not a valid boot image file And I'm completely lost with this :-) regards, -- Andriy Korud On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 10:52 -0800, Eugene Surovegin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:18:49PM +0100, Andriy Korud wrote: > > I'm trying to boot original 440GP "Ebony" board wiath original IBM ROM > > Monitor: > > ... > > 440GP 1.18 ROM Monitor (02/11/02) > > ... > > > > However I've discovered that it requires special image in KDI (Kernel > > Downloadable Image) format. And it seems that the only way to make such > > image is to use 'mkimage' utility from LynuxWorks which is not widely > > available :-) > > Can anybody help me with this? > > Huh? I'm away from my Ebony right now, so I cannot check which > OpenBIOS version it has but I never heard about KDI. > > Image generated by the `make bzImage` in 2.4 or 2.6 official > kernel should be bootable on Ebony with original IBM firmware. > > Why do you think IBM firmware requires LynuxWorks special image? This > sounds like a nonsense, frankly. > > -- > Eugene
