SILO won't load images
I'm trying to get silo to load kernels which I've made for my sparc (sun4c, a ss2) but silo seems to simply not do it, though it does load debian's kernel just fine. I make a kernel on the sparc and did a make vmlinux, then gzip'd it, put it in /boot, and entered it into /etc/silo. Upon booting and silo's prompt when I enter the image's name silo dies. I have two kernels I'm trying (one of arund 700k gzip'd and one around 900k gzip'd). The 700k kernel say's Uncompressing... for a bit, slows down (the little spinner that is), the says Fatal error: Cannont find a loadable segmet in your ELF image Program terminated leaving me at an ok prompt. The larger kernel shows that it is uncompressing, the spinner slows down, the says: Decompression error: uncompressed image too long - woudln't fin into destination. What does this really mean? (It should have to do with disk space or ram, as I have several hundred megs of hard drive free and 64 megs ram.) Oh yes, I'm trying to build a 2.2.9 kernel and the machine in question is running slink (r0). Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? thanks! -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpsYWV50C5fl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SILO won't load images
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 10:13:39AM +0200, Davide Barbieri wrote: You don't have to compress the kernel image. Right, but they can be compressed. Anyway, I gunzip'd the kernel images just to check again and the 700K kernel (with many things as modules) became 2.2MB and gives the same error message. The 900K kernel (now 2.6MB) spins for a bit, the says twice, Fatal error: Image to large to fit in destination followed by Image not found try again puzzled, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpnyMXyolEy3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SILO won't load images
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 05:01:18PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: If the kernel is dynamically linked, that certainly sounds like a problem! cd /usr/src/linux rm vmlinux make vmlinux /usr/src/linux/vmlinux? That's it! I'm used to kernels being in arch/arch/boot, so I've been using vmlinux.o from there (I was wondering why it left the .o there, but didn't think much else of it). (It's always little things like this that troubles me...) to do the final linking again and see what command is being run for the final link (something like ld ... -o vmlinux). yes, it doesn't an ld -m ... Aweseome, thanks so much! Running 2.2.9 now, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/about/pgp_key.phtml pgpf6YEnLq2uS.pgp Description: PGP signature
