Re: PowerPC Clone fails booting 2.6 d-i floppy

[Duane Cottle <duane@thecottles.net>]

Hi again,

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:28:27PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> BootX takes a kernel image and an initrd image and loads them into 
> memory along with some kernel args.
> 
> Why can't I take the kernel image and the ramdisk image off the 
> floppies and hand them to BootX along with my desired kerenel args?
> 
> 
> That would give me a straightforward way of setting the kernel 
> arguments without having to make my own boot floppies.
> 
> What do you think?

The floppies use zImage, and BootX doesn't support zipped kernels 
(AFAIK).

Back to square zero.

Regards,
Duane