<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Now on ia32, there are also a lot of
bootloaders, currently 'make install' can update lilo and grub, on ppc
desktop and enterprise computing, we mainly use yaboot as the bootloader,
I think ppc 'make install' can at least support yaboot.</font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>On Mar 26, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Brent Cook wrote:<br>
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> On Sunday 26 March 2006 19:42, Jin Qi Huang wrote:<br>
>> I also think the 'make install' is very useful, now on ia32, the
'make<br>
>> install' provided by the latest kernel linux-2.6.16 not only create<br>
>> initrd, copy vmlinuz and System.map to /boot directory, but also
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>> update<br>
>> grub, ppc32 does not provide this useful feature, maybe it is
a pity!<br>
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The feature sounds like a good idea to me, even if it's just the <br>
copying files part. Do any PPC distros provide a working installkernel
<br>
script?<br>
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> Maybe narrow it to define 'make install' for new world/old world <br>
> Macintoshes,<br>
> or IBM machines? I can't see a generic make install being useful for
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> the<br>
> wider range of platforms that fall under ppc.<br>
><br>
> 'make install' appears to me to be very platform dependent. Sure,
on <br>
> x86, you<br>
> can reasonably assume that the majority of systems have the kernel
on <br>
> a disk<br>
> under /boot and the bootloader is grub or lilo. I have 5 ppc machines<br>
> currently, and no two use the same bootloader or kernel image. I've
<br>
> seen<br>
> u-boot, yaboot, quik, powerboot (Motorola/Force), xmon (XES) and more,
<br>
> and<br>
> they all required different post-processing to the kernel image to
<br>
> boot. For<br>
> most of these, there is no way to programmatically guess where a <br>
> particular<br>
> kernel image should go to work with the boot loader.<br>
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If you have an unusual platform, don't run make install and you have <br>
lost nothing... :)<br>
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-Hollis<br>
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