install BOOTIMAGE

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Wed Oct 19 11:19:38 EST 2005


Olaf Hering wrote:
>  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.  
> 

OK, but I don't understand why you do the rename.  Why not just install 
vmlinux to the file ${INSTALL_PATH}/vmlinux?

-Geoff




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