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From: eduardo.viruena@esfm.ipn.mx
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Subject: "aout" kernel in version 4.0 / Netboot programs for "elf" kernels
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>Number:         20212
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       "aout" kernel in version 4.0 / Netboot programs for "elf" kernels
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 27 03:20:02 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jul 27 09:47:48 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jul 27 09:48:45 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Eduardo Viruena Silva
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
ESFM - IPN
>Environment:
FreeBSD server.mydomain 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Jul 14 20:34:10 CDT 2000     root@Isabeau.esfm.ipn.mx:/usr/src/sys/compile/eviruena  i386

>Description:
Netboot programs only work with "aout" kernels,
and it is not possible create an "aout" kernel in version 4.0.
A kernel in this format is necessary for diskless boot process.

In previous versions of FreeBSD, the line:

	makeoptions KERNFORMAT=aout 

could be included in the kernel configuation, but now this option
is meaningless for FreeBSD4.0	
>How-To-Repeat:
Follow the steps for creating a diskless system.
[
you can find the tutorial for doing this in:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/diskless/net_dl23.html
]

Try to load the kernel with any of the netboot programs,
and you will get the following error message:

		Loading /kernel...
		Bad executable format!

>Fix:
Somebody has to create a "netboot" program that handles 
"elf" kernels.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org>
To: eduardo.viruena@esfm.ipn.mx
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/20212: "aout" kernel in version 4.0 / Netboot programs for
 "elf" kernels
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 06:33:17 -0400 (EDT)

 On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 eduardo.viruena@esfm.ipn.mx wrote:
 
 > Somebody has to create a "netboot" program that handles 
 > "elf" kernels.
 > 
 
 jedgar@earth:/usr/ports$ make search key=boot
 
 Port:   etherboot-4.6.1
 Path:   /usr/ports/net/etherboot
 Info:   Netboot FreeBSD a.out/ELF kernels
 Maint:  ambrisko@whistle.com
 Index:  net
 B-deps: gettext-0.10.35 gmake-3.79.1 nasm-0.98
 R-deps:
 
 ...
 
 -----
 Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
 --------------------------------------------------------
 FreeBSD: The Power To Serve   -   http://www.FreeBSD.org
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jedgar 
State-Changed-When: Thu Jul 27 09:47:48 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Submitter appears to be happy with using the etherboot port. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20212 
>Unformatted:
