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.  

-- 
short story of a lazy sysadmin:
 alias appserv=wotan



More information about the Linuxppc64-dev mailing list