Opteron / Tyan motherboard fault on boot.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Fri Aug 20 11:44:00 CEST 2004


Stefan Reinauer <stepan at openbios.org> writes:

> * Dave Belfer-Shevett <dbs at stonekeep.com> [040820 16:35]:
> > 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.
> > 
> > Sorry if this is sounding pretty whiny - I'm under a lot of pressure to
> > get this all going :)
> 
> The kernel normally switches from 16bit real mode to protected mode, and
> from 32bit protected mode to 64bit long mode. 
> 
> After applying mkelfImage, the resulting kernel image is a 32bit image
> that switches to 64bit long mode itself. Since LinuxBIOS on Opteron is
> 32bit only, this is exactly what you want.
> 
> No idea what goes wrong with the section header size though..

Some tools get upset when the see a ELF file with the option section header
missing.  They report that a section header size of 0 is ``corruption''.

Eric



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