Re: Kernel 2.2.19 boot problems

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:32:18PM -0700, Jeff Wyman wrote:
> > The file I am copying is:
> >
> > linux/arch/sparc/boot/vmlinux.o
> >
> > It was my assumption that the kernel was placed in this location. The .o
> > extention did look suspicious to me, but as far as I know, this is where
> > the kernel is placed after a build on i386, and so I assumed it
> > would be the same on sparc. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Consider yourself corrected ;)
> 
> The file you want is linux/vmlinux. That is the actual kernel, and that
> is what you copy. You are thinking of arch/i386/boot/bzImage, which is a
> compressed bootable image. SPARC/UltraSPARC doesn't need these kinds of
> oddities. You can take vmlinux and put that in /boot, and even compress
> it with gzip if you want.

Yeah, that would be just vmlinux in the top of your source tree. 
Only i386 puts kernel images in arch/i386/boot.

If in doubt, install the kernel-source-2.2.19 package and the
kernel-package package and type "make-kpkg kernel_image" in the top
level of the source directory and then install the resulting
kernel-image package in the parent directory using dpkg -i

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