Re: trouble with RAMDISK after replacing kernel
Tom Oehser <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.tomsrtbt |
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I've applied the patch, it will be in the next build. -Tom On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, L J Bayuk wrote: > Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:27:53 -0400 (EDT) > From: L J Bayuk <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] trouble with RAMDISK after replacing kernel > > 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. >