Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:20:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/10529: kzip fails on ELF kernels Message-ID: <199903101820.KAA68799@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/10529; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: jrowan@mandli.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/10529: kzip fails on ELF kernels Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:13:26 +0900 Yes, kzip does not work. Try gzip, though. jrowan@mandli.com wrote: > > >Number: 10529 > >Category: bin > >Synopsis: kzip fails on ELF kernels > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: freebsd-bugs > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 10 09:10:01 PST 1999 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Rowan Littell > >Release: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386 > >Organization: > Mandli Communications, Inc. > >Environment: > FreeBSD beowulf.internal.mandli.com 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 15 11:08:08 GMT 1999 jkh@usw3.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > (fresh install) > >Description: > Kzip fails to recognize ELF-format kernels (including the GENERIC kernel > supplied on installation). Output message from the GENERIC kernel is: > > real kernel start address will be: 0x1 > real kernel end address will be: 0x65aac68a > kzip: bad magic in file kernel, probably not a kernel > kzip: extract returned 200 > > >How-To-Repeat: > On a standard 3.1-RELEASE installation: > > $ kzip /kernel > > (or any other ELF-compiled kernel) > >Fix: > A workaround exists if you compile the kernel as a.out format AND you > copy the files kzhead.o and kztail.o from a 3.0 or earlier machine > (tested with 2.2.2) to /usr/lib/aout. > > >Release-Note: > >Audit-Trail: > >Unformatted: > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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