[parisc-linux] what is palo/lifimage for ?

[Helge Deller]

On Monday 17 December 2001 11:21, Joerg Hartmann wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> yesterday i installed a new kernel for my 720.
> And now it works :)
> But there are some questions left ...
>
> The "Building the Kernel" webpage at
> http://www.parisc-linux.org/kernel/index.html says
> after "make palo" you have your new kernel in the file palo/lifimage.
> But there is no pointer what to do after this :(
> After some reading in the mailinglist archive i installed
> palo/lifimage in /boot, edited /etc/palo.conf and run palo.
>
> Then i booted my 720 just to see the message
> "Couldn't grok your kernel executable format
> ERROR: failed to load kernel" .
>
> Half an hour later i found (with the help of "file")
> that palo/lifimage is not the kenel image to boot,
> it is vmlinux in the kernel-source dir.
>
> So here comes the question: What is palo/lifimage for, or what
> am i supposed to do with it ?
> Is there another how-to for making/installing new kernels ?

Hi Joerg,

palo/lifimage is the image for netbooting a kernel via tftp/bootp (it contains
parts of the palo bootloader binary).
linux/vmlinux is the kernel image for directly booting with palo from disk (palo
is loaded from your f0 partition and then looks for the kernel image in your
data (/boot) partition).

Greetings,
Helge