On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:02:01PM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: > 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...
Okay. What's going on is that we can't fit the initrd and kernel on the same floppy. It _should_ be possible to do them on seperate floppies (since PReP uses the normal PC floppy driver) like x86. What this script does is build a kernel with the ramdisk inside (all ppc arches can do this, but only chrp can do it w/ yaboot (right now)) of the 'zImage', and then boot that off of CD or network. Right now I'm not sure if kernel-package will actually produce a working kernel-image for PReP, unless (maybe) it's compiled on a PReP box. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
