How do you strip the a.out headers off the top off the boot image? Since we
are here can someone tell me what the a.out headers are?

Thanks,

Rick Copeland


At 01:33 PM 11/3/98 -0500, Lindgren, Jon wrote:
>	I don't know about the SS2, but I do know that the SS1+
>"test-memory"
>	command is not very thorough.  I've got a known-broken SIMM that
>sails
>	right past the PROM memory tests (though SunOS picks it up pretty
>	promptly)...
>
>Yeah, but I tried 'em anyway.  I figured that if test didn't catch a problem
>then lots of swapping with SunOS might, but things appear to be okay.
>
>	I may be wrong, here...  I have a SPARCstation 330, which required
>that I strip the a.out headers off the top of the boot image.  Trying to
>boot without stripping the a.out header resulted in something near the
>message that you are getting.  Review the Diskless How To, and you may also
>find some good info in the OpenBSD INSTALL.sparc document, located in the
>root of their distribution (ftp.openbsd.org).
>
>Do you mean stripping the headers off from the kernel or the boot.net file?
>I'm not sure how stripping the headers off of boot.net might affect the
>loading of the kernel, but I'll try that tonight.  This isn't perchance the
>difference between the boot and boot.net files, is it?  I did read that the
>boot.net has the headers "transformed" in a way that make them work with all
>proms.  The boot.net file loads, completes its whoami request and tries to
>load the kernel, but fails with its "short read" and "data type exception"
>(???) errors.
>
>-Jon Lindgren
> Spear, Leeds & Kellogg
> (201) 332-3577, x4391
> jlindgren@slk.com
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