440GP "Ebony" boot problems

Eugene Surovegin ebs at ebshome.net
Fri Nov 26 05:52:33 EST 2004


On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:18:49PM +0100, Andriy Korud wrote:
> I'm trying to boot original 440GP "Ebony" board wiath original IBM ROM
> Monitor:
> ...
> 	440GP 1.18 ROM Monitor (02/11/02)
> ...
> 
> However I've discovered that it requires special image in KDI (Kernel
> Downloadable Image) format. And it seems that the only way to make such
> image is to use 'mkimage' utility from LynuxWorks which is not widely
> available :-)
> Can anybody help me with this?

Huh? I'm away from my Ebony right now, so I cannot check which 
OpenBIOS version it has but I never heard about KDI. 

Image generated by the `make bzImage` in 2.4 or 2.6 official 
kernel should be bootable on Ebony with original IBM firmware.

Why do you think IBM firmware requires LynuxWorks special image? This 
sounds like a nonsense, frankly.

--
Eugene



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