Re: Help with MOP network boot install on DECstation 5000/240

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 
> > >  This is supposedly an ECOFF image for booting with TFTP.  If you can't 
> > > get the ELF image it was converted from, you may try converting it back 
> > > to 
> > > ELF like this:
> > 
> > It isn't converted ELF but the output of the t-rex utility, which combines
> > ECOFF header, ELF stub, kernel and ramdisk into one file.
> 
>  I stand corrected.  The image should still work if converted to ELF and
> then loaded, though, shouldn't it?

At least I don't see a reason for it to break. I've never tried to
convert it to ELF, though, and binutils support for format conversion
generally isn't as reliable as it should be.


Thiemo