Re: trouble with RAMDISK after replacing kernel

L J Bayuk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tomsrtbt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tom Oehser wrote:
> ...
> Second, I've never tested the bzImage/bz2bzImage=>bzip2/gzip logic
> in buildit.s, so, assuming you called it bzImage, there may be bugs.

Yes there is a small bug. If you don't have my previous message of May 8,
2002 handy, here's the patch again:

--- 2.orig/bin/buildit.s	Sat Apr 20 20:52:05 2002
+++ 2/bin/buildit.s	Wed May  8 19:19:41 2002
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 	read-write
 	vga=ask
 	prompt
-	image=$MP/bz2bzImage
+	image=$MP/$KERNEL
 	root=$FD
 	append="load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_start=$O1 parport=0x378,7"
 !

I've tested this with 2.4.18 kernels built without the bz2bzImage patch.
I like the fact that "off-the-shelf" tomsrtbt has lots of drivers in it,
but if people build their own kernels and are more selective of what drivers
they put it, they should have no trouble getting it to fit with just the
regular gzip compressed kernel.
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