Re: powerpc b-f build compiles the kernel

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Sun Jan 06, 2002 at 01:54:12PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Colin Walters <walters@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > What annoys me about bootprep.sh is that it builds a kernel as part of
> > > the boot-floppies build process; I don't see why it can't just use a
> > > kernel-image package like every other arch.
> > 
> > Well, the only reason I could see is if it either needs a kernel
> > config option enabled, not provided by the kernel-image-*-prep
> > package, or else if it needs a file from the kernel build not normally
> > provided by the package.  It should be pretty easy to read bootprep.sh
> > and take a look.
> 
> Can someone post that?  I'm sort-of curious what needs to be done
> 'special' for a prep box..

I used a prep box a while back.  I recall the build process
needed to compile the initrd into some special section in the
kernel so the thing could netboot...

 -Erik

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