Hi, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, we could get rid of quik-installer or yaboot-installer with > that In principle, yes. > but bootloaders have their features (being able to boot different > kernels). Absolutely. mkvmlinuz is intended for subarchitectures that need to load the Linux kernel directly from Open Firmware, and therefore need the ramdisk integrated into it. > Do I understand the (oldworld) powerpc boot process correctly, that > to make boot-disks for d-i, we would have to create a hfs-floppy > (like the ones build for/with miboot) which now contains a vmlinux > blessed by mkvmlinuz ? mkvmlinuz does not bless a kernel, it compresses the raw ELF file, adds a ramdisk and some code to get a valid ELF file again. The result is almost certainly too large to fit on a floppy disk. I simply do not know whether it could be booted from other media using only Open Firmware on an Oldworld Mac. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je p�zqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
