Re: PReP hackers wanted
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:05:32PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:42:43AM +0100, christian mock wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 14:15, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > Probably. But I have basically zero knowledge of the PReP architecture,
> > > and no way to test the resulting kernel image.
> > >
> > > So, I'd like to take this opportunity to call for anyone with a working
> > > knowledge of the PReP architecture, shell script, and preferably C to
> > > help work on the Debian boot-floppies for PReP. Right now it doesn't
> > > even build because the root disk is too large.
> >
> > by 1954 bytes, yes.
> >
> > are we sure we need /sbin/macfdisk on the _PReP_ root image? removing it
> > allows the root disk to build (and even leaves 10 kB free!).
>
> But what about the rescue image? Right now I'm dying with:
> E: rootprep.bin is larger than root1440prep.bin (1482757 > 1474560)
And it just works now. I'll test this tomorrow too probably and post
the patches (I've cleaned up a few things too..)
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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