On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 11:21:53PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote: > > Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the > > etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of > > simply gzipping it by hand. > > > > Holger, can you backport the little change from the sid branch, this should > > fix it. > > But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade to 2.6, > so why do the work and backport it? > > The CDs work fine with 2.6, don't they? It's only the miboot floppies, isn't > it?
And this time with the patch ... Friendly, Sven Luther
Index: config/powerpc/powerpc/floppy.cfg =================================================================== --- config/powerpc/powerpc/floppy.cfg (révision 30690) +++ config/powerpc/powerpc/floppy.cfg (révision 30691) @@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ WRITE_MEDIA += $(FLAVOUR_SUPPORTED) $(TEMP_KERNEL).gz: $(TEMP_KERNEL) - mkvmlinuz -a miboot -k $(TEMP_KERNEL) -n -d $(TEMP)/lib -o $(TEMP_KERNEL).gz + #mkvmlinuz -a miboot -k $(TEMP_KERNEL) -n -d $(TEMP)/lib -o $(TEMP_KERNEL).gz + # Let's do it the good old fashioned way. + gzip -c -9 $(TEMP_KERNEL) >$(TEMP_KERNEL).gz $(TEMP_BOOT).new: $(TEMP_KERNEL).gz dd if=/dev/zero of=$@ bs=1024 count=$(FLOPPY_SIZE)
