https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376310 User matt@genesi-usa.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376310#c5 --- Comment #5 from Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> 2008-04-16 05:41:04 MST --- (In reply to comment #4 from Alexander Osthof)
Reading the output of the command executed in comment #3 tells that the produced output file is 2773200 bytes too large.
Could it be that the partition where /boot is located is simply too small?
NewWorld Macs have a size limit on the size of the bootable image. But, you have yaboot to work around it - just don't boot the zImage, boot Yaboot and use that to boot the vmlinux and load the initrd seperately. Regardless, the bug has been posted because without a zImage with a combined initrd, Pegasos and Efika can't boot (yaboot is not entirely usable). On NewWorld Macs, yaboot can run with the files in the kernel package and a seperate initrd.. so it's not exactly a requirement to generate the image on ALL platforms, although it wouldn't hurt as long as on NewWorld and other systems, yaboot was still the preferred loader. How about this. Can it be determined if the bootloader is installed or not, and then mkzimage is run if it's not? If you have yaboot, it's a waste of time to generate the combined zImage+initrd, on some other systems it's also pretty useless. It's only really common, I should expect, to disable the boot loader on Pegasos and Efika, and the disabling has already been fixed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.