RE: Filo Error Help

[YhLu]

Good idea.

-----Original Message-----
From: Takeshi Sone [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 6:56 PM
To: David Aubin
Cc: YhLu; Hendricks David W.; ron minnich; LinuxBIOS
Subject: Re: Filo Error Help

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