On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:06:44PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > 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). [...] > See, you need to reduce the size of this kernel. Make sure to post your > .config file once you are done with it. Yes I understand that, but what I don't understand is why Rogério succeeded when I don't. As I wrote above, I did use the same .config as he and the same kernel-sources. Could it be different compilers used? I used a pure sarge system to compile. -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad?
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