<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Does SLOF support booting from an XCOFF file?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m trying to load the boot.xcoff from Mac OS X Triger /usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.xcoff, but SLOF just keeps giving me the “bad executable” error when I load it from a fat disk image.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All the documentation I can find is that SLOF should support XCOFF boot files, so I’m unsure the error.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Ready! </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0 > load disk:1,\bootx </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Trying to load: from: /vdevice/v-scsi@71000003/disk@8000000000000000:1,\bootx ... ok</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0 > 4000 100 dump </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004000: 01 df 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004010: 00 48 00 00 01 0b 00 00 00 02 80 00 00 00 20 00 .H............ .</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004020: 00 03 b0 00 06 61 27 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .....a'.........</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004030: 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 03 ................</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 74 65 78 .............tex</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004060: 74 00 00 00 06 60 00 00 06 60 00 00 00 02 80 00 t....`...`......</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004070: 00 00 00 d4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004080: 00 00 00 00 2e 64 61 74 61 00 00 00 06 62 80 00 .....data....b..</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">00004090: 06 62 80 00 00 00 20 00 00 02 80 d4 00 00 00 00 .b.... .........</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">000040a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 62 73 73 .............bss</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">000040b0: 00 00 00 00 06 62 a0 00 06 62 a0 00 00 03 b0 00 .....b...b......</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">000040c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">000040d0: 00 00 00 00 fe ed fa ce 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 0a ................</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">000040e0: 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 09 00 00 03 c4 00 00 00 85 ................</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">000040f0: 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 38 5f 5f 50 41 47 45 5a 45 .......8__PAGEZE ok</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0 > go </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">E3403: Bad executable: No boot partition found</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> Aborted</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">0 > </span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>