https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=376310 Summary: run mkzimage on Pegasos and EFIKA as part of installation, and after kernel upgrades Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Factory Platform: PowerPC OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: pczanik@genesi-usa.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- Pegasos and EFIKA are PPC machines from bPlan/Genesi. This should be an enhancement request, but became critical due to other problems. Current boot manager situation: - yaboot is installed as bootmanager on Pegasos, but works only with recent firmwares, the rest need a workaround - EFIKA: no bootmanager is installed The mentioned workaround is to boot inst32 again, then boot the installed system, finish installation, login as root, and create a bootable kernel image. Obviously this is not a user friendly solution, especially that typical users of these machines are desktop users (mostly from the Amiga world). Even this workaround is lost now with recent factory releases, booting the installed system from inst32 does not work any more ( see: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373569 ) The proposed solution is to run the following command during installation to get a bootable kernel image. chroot /mnt mkzimage --initrd /boot/initrd --vmlinux \ /boot/vmlinux --output /boot/zImage This should be on one line, broke only for bugzilla readibility. 'chroot' is needed, as only the installed system has the 'mkzimage' tool (part of the PPC version of the 'lilo' package). On the installed system 'chroot' obviously is not needed, but running the same command automatically would save users a lot of trouble. -- 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.