Hi, On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 02:41:01PM +0200, Frans van Berckel wrote: > On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 11:32 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > It contains both the kernel and the initrd. But that's true for sparc > > as well, so I am not sure why the sparc image is so much smaller. > > > > In debian-installer's build/util/tftpboot.sh: > > > > sparc | sparc64) > > elftoaout -o $tftpimage $tftpimage.tmp > > # Piggyback appends the ramdisk to the a.out image in-place > > piggyback64 $tftpimage $tmp $rootimage > > ;; > > > > So, I am currently out of ideas, to be honest. > > There a 10Mb limit, if i am well, allocated by Openboot for the > bootloader. We are acting within the same space? > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/12/msg00115.html
With TILO image you could use compressed kernel. A.
