Using ADLO with Linuxbios

Deepak Kotian dkotian3 at vsnl.net
Fri Apr 25 15:15:01 CEST 2003


Sorry, did not quite get it.
What is this elfimage, I have my own kernel image which I would like
to boot from LinuxBIOS.
Can I convert my kernel image to LinuxBIOS format, what
would be procedure..

Could you Please elaborate..


----- Original Message -----
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov>
To: "Deepak Kotian" <dkotian3 at vsnl.net>
Cc: "Adam Agnew" <agnew at cs.umd.edu>; "Shubhangi Jadhav"
<shubhangi.jadhav at patni.com>; "bendany" <bendany at mistdl.com>;
<Linuxbios at clustermatic.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Using ADLO with Linuxbios


> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Deepak Kotian wrote:
>
> > So, if I want to boot from Compact Flash IDE which has Linux, would
> > LinuxBIOS directly boot it.
> > Do I really need ADLO for this purpose ? And also can one do away with
> > etherboot as
> > well ?
> > If ADLO is not needed, then would the kernel image be read by the
LINUXBIOS
> > directly
> > from the IDE if we specific the path of the vmlinuz image.
> >
> > I read a message from Ron, that one can just
> > do
> > cat vmlinux..gz > /dev/hda1 and etherboot would be OK.
>
> cat elfImage > /dev/hda1
>
> make sure it is a linuxbios-format elfImage
>
> ron
>
>





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