[LinuxBIOS] Elfboot can't find ELF header.

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Fri May 11 13:09:39 CEST 2007


On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 05:53:39PM +0800, Feng, Libo wrote:
> We are testing an Explosion mainboard from Broadcom based on the
> LinuxBios of Broadcom Blast. elfboot function can't find ELF header
> of Filo.elf. We check the whole Linuxbios bin file, there isn't ELF
> magic string in the bin file totally.

This sounds like payload compression is enabled.

Check out the CONFIG_COMPRESSED_PAYLOAD_* options.

If the decompression fails RAM may not be working properly.


//Peter




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