etherboot dosen't find my elfkernel

Adam Agnew agnew at cs.umd.edu
Fri Apr 25 16:06:00 CEST 2003


PCMCIA mount?
Etherboot wont look at pcmcia devices. If its going to find a compact
flash card, it will be because there's a compact flash on IDE adapter.
Then it will see it as a hard disk.


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Richard Smith wrote:

> I've got etherboot loading now.
>
> I took a bzImage and turned it into a elfimage with
>
> mkelfimage bzImage elfimage
>
> using mkelfimage 2.5
>
> then stuck that on my CF in the first partition ie 'cat elfimage >
> /dev/hde1' where hde is the pcmcia mount of my CF
>
> Stick it in my target and boot.
>
> I get:
>
> < linux bios stuff snipped>
>
> Etherboot 5.1.8 (GPL) Tagged ELF for [IDE]
> Relocating _text from: [00023d20,00032e30) to [07ff0ef0,08000000)
> Probing pci disk...
> [IDE]disk-1 7872k cap: 0200
> Searching for image...
> ................................<abort>
> Probing pci disk...
> [IDE]Probing isa disk...
> <sleep>
> Probing pci disk...
> [IDE]disk0 7872k cap: 0200
> Searching for image...
> ................................<abort>
> Probing pci disk...
> [IDE]Probing isa disk...
> <sleep>
> Probing pci disk...
> [IDE]disk1 7872k cap: 0200
> Searching for image...
> ................................<abort>
> Probing pci disk...
> [IDE]Probing isa disk...
> <sleep>
>
> And it just goes on and on checking different disks
>
> Did I miss something?  Is Tagged ELF different from the elf image that I
> created with mkelfimage?
>
> --
> Richard A. Smith
> rsmith at bitworks.com
>
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