install BOOTIMAGE

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Thu Oct 6 16:38:23 EST 2005


 On Wed, Oct 05, Geoff Levand wrote:

> With the way the current arch/ppc64/boot/Makefile (2.6.13) calls 
> install.sh, it seems 'make install' will always install vmlinux.
> 
> It seems the proper behavior is for install.sh to install 
> BOOTIMAGE, which for all but iSeries is a kind of zImage.  Does 
> this change below cause problems for anyone?

I dont think booting the zimage from the local hard disk should be
prefered over the plain vmlinux.

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