From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 30 12:40:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04941 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:40:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-58-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04912 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id VAA01841; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:39:02 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199809301939.VAA01841@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: ELF kernel questions In-Reply-To: from "Larry S. Lile" at "Sep 30, 98 01:21:40 pm" To: lile@stdio.com (Larry S. Lile) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:38:59 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Larry S. Lile wrote: > > What does it take to build and boot from an elf kernel? I actually > have need for an elf'd kernel. I would be happy to RTFM but I can't > seem to find it. Also does it need the 3-stage boot? and how do I > do that if neccesary. Depending on the options defined, it may build straight off, or may need a tweak (such as including when last I checked). I believe the latest version of the new i386 loader is now functional and can probably be expected to be loading ELF kernels any day now. In the meantime, you could use http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/btxboot-0.8.1.tar.gz which will boot kernels in either format. I believe there was also some modified-for-ELF standard boot code posted to the lists around a month ago. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message