Re: New Woody 2.3.2 boot images for sparc, need testing...

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:16:13PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > Ben Collins writes:
> >  > Let me know how things go.
> > 
> > It gets an illegal instruction immediately on my sb1000.
> > 
> > Something is hosed with the TILO image I think.  The 'linux-a.out'
> > image, on the other hand, booted just fine on the machine.
> 
> Yeah, tilo is broken on 2.4.x kernel's. This line:
> 
> 	`nm $1 | awk '/A end$/{print$1}'`
> 
> Which finds the root address of the image, but it returns blank on
> current kernels. Here's the difference:
> 
> %nm vmlinux-2.4.4 | grep ' end$'
> 00000000005c0210 t end
> 00000000005c5234 t end
> 
> %nm vmlinux-2.2.15-sun4u | grep ' end$'
> 000000000054f208 t end
> 0000000000634740 A end

Well I noticed on the 2.2 kernel that the A address for "end" and "_end"
were the same, and the 2.4 kernel has the _end symbol. I tried using
that, but still get Illegal Instruction off the bat.

So, I resorted to piggyback, but damn if that doesn't work either. So
far, the only thing I've been able to get to work is booting directly
off an a.out kernel image.

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