Joerg Mechnich wrote: > Hi all, > > after I successfully installed Debian to my Indy's HD I decided that the > disk was too noisy and I wanted to try to netboot the machine from my > NSLU. After fiddling around with tftp I finally got it right, but it did > not want to boot the ELF kernel. I checked with the file command, which > format the Etch netinstall image was in and found out that it was in > ECOFF format. I read in the Internets that you could produce an .ecoff > kernel during compilation but that there was also a tool called > elf2ecoff, which converts an existing kernel image. > So I downloaded the source, compiled the executable, tried it, got an > error and after having looked into the code, I noticed that it seems to > handle only 32-bit elf files. > I tried to fix it somehow but just got a bit further. > > So does anybody know about a way to do this or does it even work at all > that way ?
arcboot comes with the "tip22" which creates a tftp-able image from kernel and initrd. That's also the technique used for the network installer images, and for the CDROM boot. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
