Newworld OF boot

Takashi Oe toe at unlserve.unl.edu
Wed Nov 3 07:07:22 EST 1999


On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Florent wrote:

[...]
> In the past (before BootX), I used to boot LinuxPPC on a floppy where there
> was an XCoff kernel (boot fd:\\vmlinux.coff). How can I compile an XCoff
> kernel to try it ?

"make vmlinux.coff" used to produce XCoff binary.  It looks like
"make zImage" should produce XCoff image according to
arch/ppc/coffboot/Makefile.


Good luck!

Takashi Oe


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