Hi folks, I always work on ppc64 platform. Sometimes I need to netboot a machine with a special initrd. Anyway I need to run "mkzimage" to merge kernel and my customization initrd. The command always return zero value (success). But netboot fails because of too large zimage size. So my question is what is limitation of zimage size on ppc64 platform? Anyone has similar expriences on it? Some guys tell me it depends on the type of open firmware on target machine.
By the way, I want to know what initrd type are supported by "mkzimage". I got it in RHEL4 ext2 can be supported. In RHEL5, cpio can be supported. Other format? If I want to build a zimage with initrd(cpio) and kernel contained in RHEL5 cds under RHEL4 platform using RHEL4's mkzimage, whether it is acceptable? If it can not be supported , why? It seems like I can build ext2 zimage in RHEL5 using RHEL5's mkzimage command and it works well. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
