About zImage, vmlinux and yaboot on IBM Power

[Ryan Wang]

And another question:
  Can I just dd zImage to prep partition without yaboot to boot up?

thanks,

2011/10/19 Ryan Wang <openspace.wang at gmail.com>

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> 2011/10/19 Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com>
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>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:18:14PM +0800, Ryan Wang wrote:
>> > Hello,
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>> > I have some question about zImage, vmlinux and yaboot on IBM Power:
>> >     1) vmlinux is wrapped into zImage if zImage is used.
>> >     2) If yaboot is used, no zImage is needed, just vmlinux/initrd.
>> > Are there words right?
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>> Yes that's correct.  Yaboot can boot either zImage or a vmlinux (and
>> optional initrd).
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>> Sorry, I'm a little confused.
> In the kennel doc,
> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.3/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt
> it says zImage add boot wrapper to vmlinux.
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> If yaboot boot zImage, then the control would be
>      yaboot -> boot wrapper used by zImage -> vmlinux,
> right?
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> thanks,
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>> Yours Tony
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