On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:52:43AM +0200, damsnet@free.fr wrote: > > you mean I should not use arch/ppc/boot/zvmlinux for a bootdisk? That's a very > interesting information since I always used this one :) and that's probably why > it never worked. I suppose the right one is arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux.coff . > thanks a lot for this info. vmlinux.coff is only for OpenFirmware booting, and only on OldWorlds. (it fails miserably on newworlds). > If you know more about making a bootable cd with that all, it will be great > too... its impossible on oldworld, not without lots of kludgery and expensive proprietary software on a proprietary OS, and requiring a licence to distribute the result. thats why debian will never have oldworld bootable CDs. for newworlds its quite easy, look at debian-cd source for how. (or list archives where i have explained it a bit). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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