Re: boot problem for Indy

[ralf@uni-koblenz.de]

On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 01:55:29PM -0700, William J. Earl wrote:

>       The PROM on older Indy systems, especially those with R4000
> processors, may only support MIPS ECOFF binaries.  Are you booting an
> ELF or an ECOFF kernel binary?  If you have an ELF kernel binary, and
> it cannot be converted to ECOFF, you may need a two-level loading scheme.
> Note that you could try loading sash from the local disk, and then
> have sash boot vmlinux via bootp(), since sash does know about 
> ELF binaries.

For Indys we currently only build ELF kernels.  I've implemented a clean
solution how to boot ECOFF systems because I needed that for the RC3230,
I'll publish it when it's debugged.

  Ralf