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 Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:35:40PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> close 256073
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sven Luther writes:
> 
> > That said, i believe that nobody really looked into miboot since ages, so ...
> 
> In any case, I managed to build a working miBoot floppy from the
> miBoot.img included with BootX_1.2.2.sit, and successfully started the
> latest kernel vmlinux-2.6.8-powerpc on a beige G3 and a 7200/90.  The
> necessary zImage was created with a fixed version of mkvmlinuz that
> has just been uploaded.

Over cool. Care to try the resulting powerpc/floppy images of d-i, which i
will upload tomorrow or more probably tuesday once mkvmlinuz has hit the
archive ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther