On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:11:36PM -0500, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > Yeah... I found inside the Documentation/powerpc/zImage_layout.txt > some directions from Cort Dougan who says that in the PReP build you merely > 'dd' the zImage to the Type 41 boot partition... This was done by the PReP > boot disk set I used to install... But it seems none of the kernel-image > packages or make-kpkg know how to handle this option for boot loading... > I'm gonna try and locate my boot disk again and see how it managed to do > this as it did check for the Type 41 (PPC PReP Boot) partition and error'd > if it didn't exist... This check could be used to ensure the system is > bootable as it shouldn't try to 'dd' to the partition if there isn't a > PPC PReP boot partition to dd to... Yes, this is exactly how I implemented things in boot-floppies for PReP systems. Fortunately, we have libfdisk there with calls to detect partition types. Anybody know what is available from user space to accomplish this? -Matt > Hartmut Koptein was said to been seen saying: > > > > > Apologies since I haven't yet file a bug report or fixed the kernel-image > > > packages installer to not attempt to use quik on PReP systems. I'm trying > > > but am low on time and swimming in email. :-/ > > > > > > Anybody care to fix this? > > > > sure :-) i'm working on 2.2.14 now, not very easy to create an clean > > kernel-source-diff for all subarchs. I can think of better ways to do something > > than compiling 200 images per week. > > > > The quik problem shouldn't be a one !?? > > > > Package: kernel-image-2.2.14-prep > > Architecture: powerpc > > Section: base > > Priority: optional > > Provides: kernel-image > > Suggests: fdutils, kernel-doc-2.2.14 <- no quik, but i will look deeper for this, > > > > it is possible in one of the post*, pre* scripts. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Hartmut > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- > ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------, > | Jeremy T. Bouse - UnderGrid Network Services, LLC - www.UnderGrid.net | > | All messages from this address should be atleast PGP/GPG signed | > | Public PGP/GPG key available through http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net | > | If received unsigned (without requesting as such) DO NOT trust it! | > | Jeremy.Bouse@UnderGrid.net - NIC Whois: JB5713 - undrgrid@UnderGrid.net | > `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------' -- -- Matt Porter mmporter@home.com This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.
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