On Sun Jan 06, 2002 at 01:54:12PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:15:11PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > What annoys me about bootprep.sh is that it builds a kernel as part of > > > the boot-floppies build process; I don't see why it can't just use a > > > kernel-image package like every other arch. > > > > Well, the only reason I could see is if it either needs a kernel > > config option enabled, not provided by the kernel-image-*-prep > > package, or else if it needs a file from the kernel build not normally > > provided by the package. It should be pretty easy to read bootprep.sh > > and take a look. > > Can someone post that? I'm sort-of curious what needs to be done > 'special' for a prep box..
I used a prep box a while back. I recall the build process needed to compile the initrd into some special section in the kernel so the thing could netboot... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
