Re: Not an ELF file...

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:45:41AM -0500, Jason Hollinden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've probably worn out my welcome with Tavis working on why I couldn't 
> get a Ruffian to boot an newer Milo, so I'll move my woes back to the 
> list. 
>

Not at all! My mbox is just a bit of a mess, and i forgot about your
mail :)

> 
> The error I get is it says something to the effect of "unzipping..not a
> zipped file" (working from memory right now), then proceeds to fill the
> screen with #'s while it's accessing the cd.  It looks like it's trying
> to be a status bar, as they don't just fly by real quick.

Those #'s are normal, it should print two lots of them, approx 100 each
time (one lot for the initrd, and one lot for the kernel).

> 
> At the end of that, the following is displayed:
> 
> Not an ELF file
> ...Image loaded into memory, entry @ 0x0
> MILO: Failed to load the kernel

Thats a new one to me, can you confirm the md5 of the iso matches?

> 
> Google didn't turn up anything for this.  Does the boot command need 
> to be different for a ruffian, or is there a different liveCD I should use?

Nope, thats the correct iso and boot command, which should work just fine on Ruffian.

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