On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:04:25PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:58:58 -0300 Rogério Brito wrote: > > Note to self: when replacing the zImage on the HFS boot floppy, one has > > to use the vmlinux image compressed with gzip, like this: > > > gzip -9 vmlinux > > hmount /dev/fd0 > > hcopy vmlinux.gz :zImage > > humount /dev/fd0 > > > No other image that I tried worked. But it was nice to (re)-discover how > > one makes a boot floppy for an OldWorld Mac. > > I tried to repeat what Rogério Brito did (using the same kernel-source > (version 2.6.13-rc6-mm1), and the .config posted by Brito to the > lkml). > > But when doing the hcopy command mentioned above I get the following: > > pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6# hcopy vmlinux.gz :zImage > hcopy: "vmlinux.gz": volume full (No space left on device) > pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6#
Yeah, well, your kernel is to huge, it should be 1.2/1.3MB max or thereabout. > Here is some info on the floppy (unmodified boot-floppy-hfs.img from > woody) > > pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6# hmount /dev/fd0 > Volume name is "Debian/PowerPC" > Volume was created on Thu May 16 11:22:34 2002 > Volume was last modified on Thu May 16 11:22:34 2002 > Volume has 179200 bytes free > pc236:/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-rc6# ls -l vmlinux.gz > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1373583 Sep 12 16:06 vmlinux.gz See, you need to reduce the size of this kernel. Make sure to post your .config file once you are done with it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
