Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-05-01 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:02:39AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > Yes, binutils-multiarch works - just booted my mipsel-box with a freshly > generated woody CD. So the case differention between "obj(copy|dump)" > for native builds and "mipsel-linux-obj(copy|dump)" for non-native > builds is unnec

Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-05-01 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:02:17AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That would be cool. There's another thing that does worry me. All cd > images should be buildable on i386 without root rights. > > That is: if you can avoid having to use the loopback mount, it would be > great. I guess we can't

Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-04-30 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:47:26PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > mipsel-cross-binutils are not packaged for Debian, [snip] However, a mips-aware objcopy is packaged, in binutils-multiarch! In contrast to gcc, objcopy can be built to understand all supported file formats, even those alien to the

Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-04-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:48:55PM +0200, Karsten Merker écrivait: > > examining non-native binaries, but I've never used objcopy (native or > > otherwise). > > I have never used binutils-multiarch before, just installed the package > for the first time. > A first quick test indicates that it wo

Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:47:26PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:57:28PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 17:26, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > I have attached a /usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/woody/boot-mipsel > > ... > > > Running this script require

Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-04-30 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:57:28PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 17:26, Karsten Merker wrote: > > I have attached a /usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/woody/boot-mipsel > ... > > Running this script requires objcopy (part of binutils), or, when > > not running on mipsel, mipsel-l

Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-04-30 Thread Philip Hands
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 17:26, Karsten Merker wrote: > I have attached a /usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/woody/boot-mipsel ... > Running this script requires objcopy (part of binutils), or, when > not running on mipsel, mipsel-linux-objcopy (objcopy ist platform > specific, so for creating a bootabl

Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-04-28 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:26:00PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > - bootfile: the file in the cdimage (e.g. /mnt/cdboot/tftpimage-r3k-kn02.raw) > - cdimage: the cdimage file itself > - kernel_entry: the value of the kernel_entry label, which is > for r3k-kn02: 0x80040464 > for r4k-kn04: 0x8004

Re: bootable CDs for mipsel [was: Reading fibmap]

2002-04-27 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:44:13PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > Problems: > - I used the "simple" method without second stage loader, so we can only > boot one file per CD, meaning kernels for different systems have to > be spread over different CDs, although I do not think this should > b