Re: miboot floppies [was Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.]
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:04:25PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:58:58 -0300 Rogério Brito wrote:
> > Note to self: when replacing the zImage on the HFS boot floppy, one has
> > to use the vmlinux image compressed with gzip, like this:
>
> > gzip -9 vmlinux
> > hmount /dev/fd0
> > hcopy vmlinux.gz :zImage
> > humount /dev/fd0
>
> > No other image that I tried worked. But it was nice to (re)-discover how
> > one makes a boot floppy for an OldWorld Mac.
>
> I tried to repeat what Rogério Brito did (using the same kernel-source
> (version 2.6.13-rc6-mm1), and the .config posted by Brito to the
> lkml).
>
> But when doing the hcopy command mentioned above I get the following:
>
> pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6# hcopy vmlinux.gz :zImage
> hcopy: "vmlinux.gz": volume full (No space left on device)
> pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6#
Yeah, well, your kernel is to huge, it should be 1.2/1.3MB max or thereabout.
> Here is some info on the floppy (unmodified boot-floppy-hfs.img from
> woody)
>
> pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6# hmount /dev/fd0
> Volume name is "Debian/PowerPC"
> Volume was created on Thu May 16 11:22:34 2002
> Volume was last modified on Thu May 16 11:22:34 2002
> Volume has 179200 bytes free
> pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6# ls -l vmlinux.gz
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1373583 Sep 12 16:06 vmlinux.gz
See, you need to reduce the size of this kernel. Make sure to post your
.config file once you are done with it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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