On Oct 04 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:01:19PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:17:28AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:00:44AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > > > > Nope, you need the miboot package from p.d.o/~luther/miboot, and its > > > > > dependencies, and do (taken from the d-i build) :
Were are the dependencies for your miboot package, BTW? > > > > OK. I do have miboot installed, so that should not pose any problem. > > > > But why would not the procedure outlined above work (I copied it from > > > > one of Rogério Britos posts to the list)? I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I'm building now my kernels with kernel-package and what I've been compressing to get onto the miboot floppy is the one that ends on the /boot directory (stripped or not, I can't remember---and I'm not using a ppc right now). > > > Rogerio is not creating a floppy disk from scratch, he is Indeed. > > > overwriting the kernel on an existing miboot floppy, and can thus > > > not set the KERNEL_CMDL among other stuff. But just editing the System.bin file with appropriate commands work quite well (for instance, for enabling the l2 cache via the l2cr parameter). I see no problems with that if you just want to get something functional. OTOH, it probably doesn't help for further development of boot images, I agree. > > I am also operating on existing miboot floppy, so I can do it the way > > Rogerio did. > > Why not try and do it the right way ? You understand that what you do > supposes that someone else did the above thingy to create the original > floppy, no ? So since you can create it directly, why not do that ? Perhaps because he wants to understand the issue first and then do things "the right way"? > This is done at miboot floppy generation time, not at kernel > compilation time. Something akin to your perl script is neatly > packaged in the miboot and dependencies packages, so why not use it ? I think that he is concerned first in getting something working and then doing variations on that. > > I modularized a bit too much though, so the kernel didn't do the > > partition check and never found the partition to mount / on. But > > that is solvable, compiling again as I write this. This time I even > > include a driver for the nic and support for / on NFS. If that > > kernel fits the floppy, that would be really cool IMHO. I have many things compiled into my own (oldworld) ppc kernel, including two filesystems (ext2, ext3), the nic driver and other things. > Indeed. Feel free to mail me (or a bug report maybe ?) your config > with a bit of descriptiion of what you tried to achieve, there is no > reason the debian kernel could not fit your need, i believe. Have you checked the config file that I posted to Andrew Morton some time ago? It should be on the lkml archives (again, I would send it now if I were in front of my PowerMac). Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
