Re: Filo Error Help

[David Aubin]

Thank yo for the image, but oddly it fails exactly the
same way....
Found initrd block 0
crc error

I'm using reiserfs, I'll try ext2.  I'm really running out
of ideas.

Thanks,
Dave

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 21:56, Takeshi Sone wrote:
> Can you try out my FILO? (http://te.to/~ts1/filo/)
> If it works, it might help narrow the problem.
>
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:14:39PM -0400, David Aubin wrote:
> > Here are the results:
> >
> > I took my known working hard drive and stuck it in the device to test
> > with filo.
> > The results were the same!  Meaning a known working kernel & intird on 
> > my hard drive failed at the initrd portion, again with the crc error.
> >
> > I'm now going to try a basic etherboot test without filo to see if I can
> > read off of the
> > hard drive, just as a baseline.
> >
> > Any other ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 16:01, YhLu wrote:
> > > I mean if you build tg3?filo?ide_disk.zelf,  it will confuse the
> > > Etherboot. So you can only build tg3?filo.zelf or tg3?ide_disk.zelf.
> > >
> > > Do you have spare IDE disk? If So format the disk into ext3 or fat
> > > format and copy the .elf file into it.
> > >
> > > Then connect that to your MB do test.
> > >
> > > hda1:/ram0_......elf
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > YH
> > >
> > > From:David Aubin [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> > > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 12:50 PM
> > > To: YhLu
> > > Cc: Hendricks David W.; ron minnich; LinuxBIOS
> > > Subject: RE: Filo Error Help
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am unable to get my kernel & initrd off of the usb stick.  I was
> > > reading
> > > through the documents and came across this line in
> > > README.etherboot_in_filo: 
> > > You can not use filo and ide_disk at the same time.
> > >
> > > Can you tell me what this means?  Do I need to rebuild filo without
> > > IDE
> > > support to get USB support?
> > >
> > > Just to recap:  My kernel & initrd fails as the initrd execution
> > > complaining of
> > > a bad CRC when I use the elf as a payload to load with with filo.  I
> > > then try
> > > uda1:/kernel initrd=/boot/initrd root=/dev/sda1 and I get those td
> > > errors.  I then
> > > tried your ramfs.elf and I get the same behavior are my elf image with
> > > the CRC
> > > complaining when the initrd portion is executed.  Note, I have
> > > confirmed my elf
> > > works with etherboot, just not filo yet....
> > >
> > > The CRC error makes me think that the image did not get loaded
> > > correctly
> > > by the elf boot.  Can you confirm you used Eric's mkelfImage2-5?  Here
> > > is
> > > my dump of the readelf -a.
> > >
> > > ELF Header:
> > >   Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > >   Class:                             ELF32
> > >   Data:                              2's complement, little endian
> > >   Version:                           1 (current)
> > >   OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
> > >   ABI Version:                       0
> > >   Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
> > >   Machine:                           Intel 80386
> > >   Version:                           0x1
> > >   Entry point address:               0x10000
> > >   Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
> > >   Start of section headers:          0 (bytes into file)
> > >   Flags:                             0x0
> > >   Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
> > >   Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
> > >   Number of program headers:         5
> > >   Size of section headers:           0 (bytes)
> > >   Number of section headers:         0
> > >   Section header string table index: 0
> > >
> > > There are no sections in this file.
> > >
> > > Program Headers:
> > >   Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg
> > > Align
> > >   NOTE           0x0000d4 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00088 0x00088 RWE 0
> > >   LOAD           0x00015c 0x00010000 0x00010000 0x0559c 0x1aa24 RWE 0
> > >   LOAD           0x0056f8 0x00091000 0x00091000 0x00000 0x00070 RWE 0
> > >   LOAD           0x0056f8 0x00100000 0x00100000 0x1a952a 0x700000 RWE
> > > 0
> > >   LOAD           0x1aec22 0x00800000 0x00800000 0x2769f5 0x2769f5 RWE
> > > 0
> > >
> > > There is no dynamic segment in this file.
> > >
> > > There are no relocations in this file.
> > >
> > > There are no unwind sections in this file.
> > >
> > > No version information found in this file.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 15:48, YhLu wrote:
> > >
> > > I have got two cpus and four dimms for every CPU.
> > >
> > > YH
> > >
> > > From:David Aubin [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:07 PM
> > > To: YhLu
> > > Cc: Hendricks David W.; ron minnich; LinuxBIOS
> > > Subject: RE: Filo Error Help
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Yes, I did, but I don't have a DHCP environment so it kept searching
> > > at the DHCP phase.
> > >
> > > This problem is odd.  I can boot my elf fine with etherboot, but not
> > > with filo.  I can boot
> > > my kernel fine with filo, but not the initrd.  I can even boot your
> > > kernel of the ram.elf you
> > > sent me, but when it hits the initrd it fails with the same error as
> > > mine.
> > >
> > > I suspect either my filo is not configured like yours or that there
> > > is a problem loading a
> > > mulitpart elf (kernel & initrd in filo).  I'm confused as to why filo
> > > didn't just use the etherboot
> > > portion of elf_load.  It could be you were on the, "bleeding" edge?
> > > ;)
> > >
> > > Can you tell me how much memory you have in your working system?  I
> > > have just
> > > one cpu and 512meg memory.  Curious if loading it high & it runs out
> > > of memory or
> > > something like that.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:05, YhLu wrote:
> > >
> > > Did you try the tg3--filo.zelf I sent to you?
> > >
> > > YH