Opteron / Tyan motherboard fault on boot.

[Eric W. Biederman]

Dave Belfer-Shevett <dbs at stonekeep.com> 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