On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:11:11PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> 
> > > U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
> > > mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
> > > image and outputs a bootable image)
> > 
> > That's crap.  Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able
> > to load a plain vmlinux.
> 
> Does that include a ramdisk?  My understanding was that you need
> either a bootloader or a bootable image like the one describer above
> in order to boot an initrd kernel.  On sub-architectures that don't
> have a bootloader, such as PReP or CHRP, this leaves only the bootable
> image.

Supposedly, a yaboot2 should be able to work without problems on all of
those, once it is ready though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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