On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:54:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] > i managed to do a powerpc-miboot flavour build, which does fit on a miboot > floppy. I would like (urgently) for folk to test it out, it is just a kernel, > i need to see if it boots, not much more for now, before i go ahead and upload > 2.6.12-7 which would include it, and subsequently build debian-installer > images with it. > > The floppy is at : > > http://people.debian.org/~luther/miboot.floppy Since this miboot floppy works nicely, I would like to use the official kernel-source to create a customized 2.6 kernel for miboot. (I have two different aims: 1. A miboot floppy that could boot with root on harddisk without a need for an initrd (might be handy if quik cannot boot anymore) and 2. A miboot floppy with support for NFS-root compiled in for use without any harddisk at all) The source is in linux-source-2.6.12 right? The .config is in linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc-miboot right? If I track unstable, would something like this work? # apt-get install linux-source-2.6.12 linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc-miboot # cd /usr/src; tar -jxvf linux-source-2.6.12.tar.bz2 # cp /boot/config-2.6.12* linux-source-2.6.12/.config [modify .config to my needs] # cd linux-source-2.6.12; make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 kernel_image [ wait for compilation to end, and insert a working miboot floppy ] # gzip -9 path/to/newly/compiled/vmlinux # hmount /dev/fd0 # hcopy vmlinux.gz :zImage # humount /dev/fd0 To create a working miboot floppy that boot a root on HD (no initrd) I assume I must also use the perl script patch-floppy-image.pl to set the "root=" argument to whatever partition the rootfs exists on, right? regards, -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> GnuPG key: 1024D/7050614E Fingerprint: 1408 C8D5 1E7D 4C9C C27E 014F 7C2C 872A 7050 614E Learn about secure email at http://www.gnupg.org
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