On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:53:07PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:58:34PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > > > But the debian/rules file created by make-kpkg is supposed to take a > > > look at the sub architecture and use that as the target. So, because I'm > > > building on a Power Mac, it shouldn't build the .coff file, which is of > > > no use in this case. > > > > can't coff format kernels be booted from OF on an Oldworld mac? > > Yes, they boot just fine on my StarMax 3000/160 (pmac 4400 clone). AFAIK, > this is the way to make a boot floppy on these machines, before Bastien's > post I never knew they didn't boot on all pmacs. :-) i tried to boot one on my blue g3, OpenFirmware decompresses it and then hangs. that could probably be fixed fairly easily. it would actually be quite useful for netboot setups, just shoot the coff format kernel over instead of yaboot+yaboot.conf+vmlinux. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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