Re: Getting vmlinux-2.4.26-pa4-debian-64-smp to boot
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:07:10PM -0400, Harry Cochran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm missing something really simple, but I don't seem to get able to get my
> J6000 to boot vmlinux-2.4.26-pa4-debian-64-smp. Okay, I did apt-get install
> vmlinux-2.4.26-pa4-debian-64-smp, I changed the symlink /boot/vmlinux ->
> vmlinux-2.4.26-pa4-debian-64-smp and I edited palo.conf to
> change --recoverykernel=/boot/vmlinux (the command line already said
> 1/boot/vmlinux and sda1 is my f0 partition). On boot up I get:
>
> Selected kernel: /boot/vmlinux from parttion 1
> Warning: kernel name doesn't end with 32 or 64 --Guessing...
> This box can either boot 32 or 64 bit kernels...Only see a 32 bit kernel,
> using thatELF32 executable
>
> I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong.
RTFM: "less /usr/share/doc/palo/README" and look for "64-bit".
> Also, I'm assuming that I'm better off with a 64 bit kernel than a 32 bit
> kernel since the cpu is 64 bit. Is this true?
Not true.
http://www.parisc-linux.org/faq/index.html#support64bit
hth,
grant
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