Hello, Marcus Schäfer wrote:
BTW: porting to PPC would be easy now: there is no Xen yet (it's still in development), current kernel does not work in qemu, there is no vmWare, so basically netbooting, liveDVD and USB remains. None of these need syslinux, just the creating of a bootable kernel image...
Sounds good so far, Is there anything kiwi must do differently ? Something we had to change in the code ?
I think, first I need to find an x86 machine, so I can see what it does exactly. But basically everything is the same except for booting. Instead of syslinux loading vmlinuz & initrd, use 'mkzimage' from the PPC version of the 'lilo' package to create a combined boot kernel image and use that. It does not really need any installation, just copy the resulting file on the CD or the TFTP server and it's ready for use. If you look at an ftp installation source (or a PPC CD), there is a suseboot directory. 'inst32' is this type of file. BTW: looking at some Gentoo live CDs gave me an idea: would it be possible to use kiwi for a squashfs based system? In this case , if one creates an image with kiwi, the one who downloads it needs to deal only with a small number of files. In case of PPC the number is reduced to two (or three, if there is a README :-) ). Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org