Re: Making d-i work on oldworlds
On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Did this work with a kernel 2.4? Do you know which options you need for
> running the kernel on an oldworld (minimal .config would be nice to have).
I put a slim .config that I have used to boot an oldworld (PMac 9500
180MP) at <http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/config-2.4.23-pre5-ben0-1.ow>.
It has few options turned on, but serves as a proof of concept for
booting a 2.4 kernel on oldworlds.
> Do you think it would be possible to make a minimal kernel (everything
> not needed for booting into an initrd in modules) that works on
> newworlds and oldworlds and fits on a floppy (compressed) at the same
> time? Or should we simply forget that and build a seperate kernel for
> oldworlds with another configuration?
>From my experiments, the kernel from Debian proper (2.4.22-powerpc-smp),
when gzipped, takes about 1.5MB, which is obviously quite a lot for a
floppy. OTOH, it boots and works ok with quik on said oldworld.
If some support is removed from it, then I'd guess that one could
squeeze a kernel that works with both oldworlds and newworlds into a
boot floppy with miboot. It seems that miboot takes about 100-150kb of
the boot floppy.
I can provide the image of the floppy I made, if there is any interest
in it (based on woody's boot floopy).
Hope this helps, Roger...
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