[Cbe-oss-dev] Help installing a custom kernel on PS3

[Geoff Levand]

On 12/31/2009 12:40 PM, Andrea wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install a custom kernel on a PS3 running Fedora 12.
> I've done what I usually do on an x86

Nothing here is PS3 specific.

> make xconfig
> make
> make modules_install
> make install
> 
> the issue is that "make install" tries to install a gigantic file that fills the entire space of /boot.
> 
> this file is called vmlinux
> 
> I can see that Fedora kernel is vmlinuz and it is much smaller.

vmlinuz is a gzipped version of vmlinux.

> How would I install "vmlinuz"? I've tried "make zImage", but the file zImage does not look like a
> bootable kernel.

Why not?

What happens if you try to boot or kexec it?

The command 'make V=1 zImage' should show the commands used to build zImage.

-Geoff