Re: mipsel install failure in gxemul-ated decstation

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 18:06, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:15, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > > Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > What happens is that t-rex builds an ecoff image, I suppose this is
> > > > what the firmware on a real decstation would boot. However gxemul
> > > > does not have any firmware, it only knows how to load an ELF file and
> > > > get it started. Well supposedly it should also be able to load a
> > > > binary file such as the initrd image, but for some reason I've been
> > > > unable to figure out the glue to make that work. So what I need is
> > > > the debian kernel + initrd image in a single ELF file.
> > >
> > > Maybe you can convert the initrd into a cpio archive and append it at
> > > the kernel image. I heard this is supposed to work, I haven't tried it
> > > myself.
> >
> > It works, BUT you must build this as part of the kernel build (in recent
> > kernels only).  If you try to append it later then, due to what I think
> > is a bug in objcopy, it fails.
>
> I meant something like "cat initramfs.cpio >> kernel.img". I fail to see
> where objdump comes into play there.
>
that may not work if there is already an INITRAMFS section in the kernel 
image.  I think it also does not work with the ELF version of the kernel.

David
>
> Thiemo