Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 20:41:16 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting Elf Kernel Message-ID: <199811021041.UAA23800@zeus.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199811020817.AAA08915@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Nov 2, 98 00:17:36 am"
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+----[ Mike Smith ]--------------------------------------------- | > Is it possible to boot an ELF kernel? | | Yes. | | > The Release Notes say that the kernel is still in aout format, but, is | > there a way? I don't have any active LKM's to worry about, and I'm | > reinstalling most of my stuff in ELF format anyway. | | You probably want to update to -current first. Following a 'make world', | build an ELF kernel by setting KERNFORMAT to 'elf' in the environment | before doing the kernel build. Install the kernel as /kernel.elf I'd got this far... of course it wouldn't boot :-) | Reboot, and at the boot: prompt type '/boot/loader', then abort the | kernel load and type 'boot kernel.elf'. I did some mucking around today. I got to the point of putting /boot/loader into boot.config and then got very confused... as it didn't want to load ',kernel.old' I've got it booted now in time to read this email... | If this works for you, the next step is to update the bootblocks with | 'disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 <disk>' where <disk> is | your boot slice. Remove any existing /boot.config file. This is my final step :-) -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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