Notes on SGI Altix Platform

Relocation errors on load

If you are seeing something like

Uncompressing Linux... gzip.c(line 441):relocation is disabled, cannot load kernel
gzip.c(line 596):gzip_ia64 : invalid exec header

Make sure you have the line

relocatable

in your elilo.conf

e.g.

relocatable

image=/tftpboot/gelato/tutti/vmlinux-dev
        label=dev
        root=/dev/ram
        read-only

IA64wiki: Altix (last edited 2005-11-30 00:00:40 by vampire)

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