43p-140 install issues

Michael Schmitz schmitz at opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de
Thu Jan 6 23:19:32 EST 2005


> > > from being added there too, not sure. In any way i believe it has more its
> > > place inside mkvmlinuz, than inside the more userland powerpc-utils.
> >
> > Whatever. Just thought people might want to use it to change kernel
> > options on the fly, without invoking mkvmlinuz.
>
> Well, we would need at least a .udeb containing it. IF you can add it to
> powerpc-tools, then nice. I think that maybe mkvmlinuz would be also a

Does it work independently of mkvmlinuz (that is, operate on the bootable
files generated by mkvmlinuz)? Does it make sense for non-PREP/CHRP
machines? Otherwise, I'd suggest adding it to mkvmlinuz.

> candidate to be part of the powerpc-tools, not sure though.

Does the mkvmlinuz trick help with bootable CDs on Macs (OldWorld), BTW?

	Michael




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