From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 21 5: 0:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 965CE119BA for ; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 05:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.51]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA276F; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:00:19 +0100 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (daemon.ninth-circle.org [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00549; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:09:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902190628.PAA07987@ns.kitel.co.kr> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:09:28 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: swjeong Subject: RE: How can I boot with ELF kernel? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19-Feb-99 swjeong wrote: > > I am using FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE. > > I know that kernel core dump can'be debugged with built-in gdb. > I got aout version of gdb. But it said 'ksymbol not found' and I > counldn't > debug. Thus I made elf kernel by adding 'KERNFORMAT=elf' at the head of > kernel Makefile. But boot load said 'Invalid Format!'. > > How can I boot with ELF kernel? Hmm, look through /etc/make.conf If I remember correctly 3.0-R uses an ELF userland, but an a.out kernel. To use the ELF kernel one needs to update the bootblocks. This has been discussed to death in either the questions, stable or current mailinglists. I wish I could provide some pointers, but freefall seems to be down for maintenance. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org> asmodai(at)wxs.nl This is my Truth, tell me your's... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message