[syslinux] Booting FreeBSD

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Thu Aug 1 03:24:24 PDT 2013


On 01/08/2013, at 19:13, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (ie MAKEDIR is unset)
> 
> It's a binary/source archive.  You don't need make.  Use
> bios/utils/isohybrid.pl as-is.

Ahh I didn't realise it ended up in a different directory.

>>> The error is perfect: You're attempting to load a file that isn't in
>>> the right format.
>> 
>> Can you elaborate?
>> /boot/kernel/kernel is my kernel..
>> [build92 23:40] ~ #file /boot/kernel/kernel
>> /boot/kernel/kernel: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped
>> [build92 23:40] ~ #ls -la /boot/kernel/kernel
>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20730068 Jul 21 13:41 /boot/kernel/kernel*
> 
> $ file esxi510/TBOOT.B00
> esxi510/TBOOT.B00: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Tue
> Mar 13 21:16:55 2012, max compression
> $ file esxi410/tboot.gz
> esxi410/tboot.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Tue
> Dec 21 20:20:30 2010, max compression
> 
> after decompression:
> $ file TBOOT.B00
> TBOOT.B00: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> statically linked, stripped
> $ file tboot
> tboot: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
> statically linked, stripped
> 
> Tried the 32 bit kernel for testing?  I'll spin up a few tests shortly.


I haven't, I'll dig one up tomorrow.

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