Bug#256073: kernel-image-2.6.7-powerpc: kernel is too big to fit on a miboot floppy

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:16:31AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> close 256073
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> $ mkvmlinuz -a miboot -k boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc -d usr/lib/kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc -a miboot -o vmlinuz
> $ ls -o vmlinuz 
> -rw-r--r--  1 jens 1250126 Sep 10 10:52 vmlinuz
> 
> Nuff said.

Well, apart that miboot refuses to boot this kernel, and it seems that the
objcopy -O binary used to shrink the size isn't liked by miboot.

Friendly,

Sven Luther