Re: powerpc b-f build compiles the kernel
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:02:01PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 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...
Okay. What's going on is that we can't fit the initrd and kernel on the
same floppy. It _should_ be possible to do them on seperate floppies
(since PReP uses the normal PC floppy driver) like x86. What this
script does is build a kernel with the ramdisk inside (all ppc arches
can do this, but only chrp can do it w/ yaboot (right now)) of the
'zImage', and then boot that off of CD or network.
Right now I'm not sure if kernel-package will actually produce a working
kernel-image for PReP, unless (maybe) it's compiled on a PReP box.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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