Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: > Hi there, > > It seems to me as if the kernel image on Sparc is a gzip'ed binary, right? > (/etc/silo.conf points to a file vmlinuz, and file(1) says "gzip data") > Why is this??
silo is able to handle compressed kernel like this. No need for builtin gunzip in the kernel itself like for i386. > I have troubles here using the "mknbi-linux" command from the "netboot" > package. "mknbi-linux" complains about "Bad magic number" if I feed the > kernel iamge file to it. > Even unzipping doesn't help- mknbi-linux still complains about "Bad magic > number". > > So ... How it is possible to create a net-bootable image of a kernel? > > Any hints are appreciated! :-) don't know mknbi-linux. Is it for netbios or alike ? On sparc, you need to convert it into a.out format. Use elftoaout from the sparc-utils package. You can get the standalone kernel from the sparc bootdisks (named "linux-a.out") for a net bootable kernel and tftpboot.img to get a kernel + ramdisk image. The latter one is created using the piggyback command. Take also a look at tilo (still available in sparc-utils) to build a TFTP bootable image with ramdisk for sparc and ultrasparc at the same time (as for tftpboot-2.2.1.img). Hope this helps you. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)