On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:19:02PM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Google did not help me, nor the list archives. > > What is exactly mkvmlinuz, and how to use it? > > What I could gather is that it puts a reduced version of the > kernel somewhere in OpenFirmware, so one can do without yaboot. But > then how to boot?
When you build a kernel, you either build the vmlinux file, which yaboot and quik use, or you build a zImage.chrp or .prep or so (try googling for those), which include a compressed version of the same vmlinux file, plus a small chrp or prep or coff or whatever mini-bootloader whose code you will find in arch/ppc/boot, and which may include also an initrd in the same file. mkvmlinuz is just a smallish shell script, which provided the kernel-image you are using includes support for mkvmlinuz, in which is copies most of the object files built in arch/ppc/boot and a few more into /usr/lib/kernel-image-* so the last step of the linking can happen at kernel-image install time, so you don't need to have a -pmac, -prep, -chrp and -chrp-rs6k kernel as we used to have in older 2.4 times. If you are purely a yaboot or quik user, you can just plain ignore mkvmlinuz, and as it is just a smallish script, it will not bother you otherwise. Hope this helps. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
