RE: Opteron / Tyan motherboard fault on boot.

[YhLu]

In the Etherboot
Src/arch/i386/Config

There is an option 
-DCOFIG_X86_64.

You need to enable it to use Etherboot boot elf with X86-64 kernel.

Regards

YH

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Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 10:11 AM
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Subject: Re: Opteron / Tyan motherboard fault on boot.

Dave Belfer-Shevett  writes:
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 19:29, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > mkelf-linux --rootdir=rom --ip=rom ./bzImage > vmlinuz.tyan
> >
> > This is your first problem.
> >
> > mkelf-linux does not know how to bypass the BIOS calls so
> > it will not work under LinuxBIOS.
>
> Ahhhh.
> > Please get mkelfImage 2.5 
> > ftp://ftp.lnxi.com/pub/mkelfImage.
>
> Done, compiled, and installed.  I'm a little worried here though:
>
> ./mkelfImage --kernel=/tftpboot/bzImage
> --output=/tftpboot/vmlinuz-2.tyan
>
> When I do a 'file' on the new image, I see:
>
> /tftpbot/vmlinuz-2.tyan: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version
> 1 (SYSV), statically linked, corrupted section header size
>
> This image (bzImage) is an Opteron compiled kernel, which should be 64
> bit, unless there's no real difference in the elf header.

Stefan already gave the practical explanation.  The small bit beyond
that is the x86_64 kernel does not even have a valid 64bit entry point.

The code is actually present in the 32bit etherboot to cope
with an 64bit in for x86_64.  But except for test programs
I have not been able to find any native ones.

Eric
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