Ben Collins wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:32:18PM -0700, Jeff Wyman wrote: > > The file I am copying is: > > > > linux/arch/sparc/boot/vmlinux.o > > > > It was my assumption that the kernel was placed in this location. The .o > > extention did look suspicious to me, but as far as I know, this is where > > the kernel is placed after a build on i386, and so I assumed it > > would be the same on sparc. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Consider yourself corrected ;) > > The file you want is linux/vmlinux. That is the actual kernel, and that > is what you copy. You are thinking of arch/i386/boot/bzImage, which is a > compressed bootable image. SPARC/UltraSPARC doesn't need these kinds of > oddities. You can take vmlinux and put that in /boot, and even compress > it with gzip if you want.
Yeah, that would be just vmlinux in the top of your source tree. Only i386 puts kernel images in arch/i386/boot. If in doubt, install the kernel-source-2.2.19 package and the kernel-package package and type "make-kpkg kernel_image" in the top level of the source directory and then install the resulting kernel-image package in the parent directory using dpkg -i a
