install BOOTIMAGE
Olaf Hering
olh at suse.de
Wed Oct 19 09:55:53 EST 2005
On Tue, Oct 18, Geoff Levand wrote:
> It seems queer to me to pass BOOTIMAGE to install.sh just so we can
> copy vmlinux to BOOTIMAGE. In the case of BOOTIMAGE=zImage, we get
> vmlinux copied to a file named zImage -- very queer.
>
> I guess what I want is for this to work when I build on my PC:
>
> $ make INSTALL_PATH=/target/g5/boot install
>
> And I get the proper image file zImage.vmode in
> /target/g5/boot/zImage.vmode, not vmlinux named
> /target/g5/boot/zImage.vmode.
That would be a bug.
The zImage contains no info about the uname -r. If one wants to rerun mkinitrd,
it will have no info about what modules to include.
Thats the reason why I changed it initially.
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