On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't > managed to uncover. > > The short story is that I need to know what sort of kernel images to > build for booting with miboot. Should I tell make-kpkg "--zimage" or > "--bzimage" and either way, which image file in the resulting package
bzimage is a i386 specific kludge to work around that archetecture's fundementally broken design. zImage is sometimes useful on powerpc, in this case not really. > should I use? Or is there a better way? So far I've only played with > 2.2.x kernels but if it's different for 2.4.x I'd appreciate knowing. use the plain vmlinux file generated at the root level of the kernel tree. 2.4 might be different, i ignore 2.4. > miboot System and Finder, as well as kernels and configs, etc. mounted > at /boot. you should manually copy the kernels with hfsutils, never mount hfs on /boot. personally i would rather boot via OF and a floppy then use miboot. to do that simply copy the vmlinux.coff image to the root of an hfs floppy and enter: boot fd:vmlinux.coff at OF. im not sure how you set args, either via boot-file or like so: boot fd:vmlinux.coff root=/dev/sda2 ro -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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