Kernel not ELF compatible
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:56 am
I thought maybe I had gotten help with this same problem long ago, but searching only brings up a Broken Symmetry problem I sought help for as recently as June!
My problem this time is that I downloaded and dearchived the latest kernels vmlinux-4.1.31 and vmlinux-4.8.rc4 a couple days ago, and drag-and-dropped them from Downloads to CF CARD, a procedure I have been employing regularly when new kernels are to be tested.
CFE menu command 6 is supposed to bring up Ubuntu MATE 16.04, but the next time I tried it nothing happened. The next time I tried I got an error message about cf0:vmlinux-4.1 not being ELF compatible. So I tried with cf0:vmlinux-4.8, and found out that it isn't ELF compatible either!
Fortunately I also have kernels 4.6 and 4.7 on my CF CARD. MATE comes up just fine with 4.7. So I moved the supposedly bad new kernels to trash and dragged the originals over from Downloads again. No, still not ELF-compatible.
I guess I'll try de-archiving them again, but I am pessimistic, and worried that it might be a CF CARD problem of some sort. So I'm hoping to find some help about what I should do when I log on here tomorrow, please. If I am going to have to reformat cf0: how can I be sure of saving vmlinux-4.6 and -4.7 without making them ELF-incompatible as well?
As I feared, CFE still says, "Could not load cf0:vmlinux-4.1: not an ELF-format executable." But clicking on its icon and going to "Information" from Ubuntu says it is executable.
My problem this time is that I downloaded and dearchived the latest kernels vmlinux-4.1.31 and vmlinux-4.8.rc4 a couple days ago, and drag-and-dropped them from Downloads to CF CARD, a procedure I have been employing regularly when new kernels are to be tested.
CFE menu command 6 is supposed to bring up Ubuntu MATE 16.04, but the next time I tried it nothing happened. The next time I tried I got an error message about cf0:vmlinux-4.1 not being ELF compatible. So I tried with cf0:vmlinux-4.8, and found out that it isn't ELF compatible either!
Fortunately I also have kernels 4.6 and 4.7 on my CF CARD. MATE comes up just fine with 4.7. So I moved the supposedly bad new kernels to trash and dragged the originals over from Downloads again. No, still not ELF-compatible.
I guess I'll try de-archiving them again, but I am pessimistic, and worried that it might be a CF CARD problem of some sort. So I'm hoping to find some help about what I should do when I log on here tomorrow, please. If I am going to have to reformat cf0: how can I be sure of saving vmlinux-4.6 and -4.7 without making them ELF-incompatible as well?
As I feared, CFE still says, "Could not load cf0:vmlinux-4.1: not an ELF-format executable." But clicking on its icon and going to "Information" from Ubuntu says it is executable.