On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:57:27PM +0100, Thomas Habets wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 18 November 2003 18:10, Otto Solares wrote: > > you must 'make image' first then use arch/sparc64/boot/image for silo. > > You mean sparc, not sparc64? It's a sparcstation 4, not an ultrasparc.
Good, i have a ss4 too. > Like I said, I tried arch/sparc/boot/image. I tried it raw and I tried it > gzipped, I've also tried it stripped&&gzipped, which got it down to 3.0M, > 1.3M gzipped (gzip -9) > > So: > cp arch/sparc/boot/image . > strip -R .comment -R .note image -o image.stripped # i've tried w/o this > gzip -9 image.stripped # I've tried w/o this > cp image.stripped.gz /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test9 > > I used "make all", which accoring to "make help" includes "make image" these are the steps i do to compile a 2.6 kernel on my ss4: cp arch/sparc/defconfig .config make oldconfig make make image make modules make modules_install cp arch/sparc/boot/image /boot/vmlinuz silo -U -f # not needed but anyway... :) The only problem i have with my ss4 and kernel 2.6 is the lack of keyboard and mouse, i have looked deeply in the sunzilog code and can't find a solution. -solca
