Re: More graphical boot floppies issues

[Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

On Mar 28, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 1. Does anyone have a good idea how to integrate the graphical
>    graphical boot floppies into the top-level Makefile?  There's only
>    one thing that really has to change: the building of root.bin.
>    dbootstrap has to be built linked to bogl instead of newt.  Oh and
>    of course a 2.2.x kernel has to be used.

Can you make a graphical.sh file, so we can call it from the Makefile?
Please have a look at 'drivers.sh' parameter (or any other *.sh file with
parameters). Please add a ARCH or SYSTEM parameter to the graphical.sh. 
Other parameters???  x-ref, y-ref, bpp, ...

> 2. I'm trying to strip down a 2.2.4 kernel enough that it can actually
>    fit on a floppy along with the root.bin image.  So far, I've had to
>    sacrifice a few things:
> 	math emulation
> 	Micro Channel support
> 	VGA text console
> 	etc.
>    Is this cool with everyone, or will I have to move to a boot
>    floppy/root floppy approach for sure?

Please send me the .config file, i'll integrate it to my own kernel-image
package. 


MfG,


   Hartmut