From: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel make install - why don't we make it easy like on ia32?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:06:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905339@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905306@msgid-missing>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:38:02PM -0800, Piet/Pete Delaney wrote:
> I was wondering why the ia32 style of installing boot stuff like
> /boot/vmlinuz that done in:
>
> arch/i386/boot/Makefile
> and
> arch/i386/boot/install.sh
>
> isn't being done for ia64.
>
> I'm thinking of makeing a few tweaks to the ia32 version to copy
> kernel stuff to /boot and /boot/efi. I've been using a hack on the
> top level kernel Makefile but it's a hack to do it there. The ia32
> paradigm seems fine; so why isn't it done for ia64. Even after
> applying the ia64 patch to linux-2.4.18, a 'make install' in the
> top level kernel Makefile still breaks.
>
> What gives?
Note that on Debian ia64 the efi partition is not normally mounted. The
approach we took was that kernels+initrds are dropped in /boot, and then
we have a script /usr/sbin/elilo, which makes sure the efi partition
contents are up to date.
Richard
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2002-03-20 6:38 [Linux-ia64] kernel make install - why don't we make it easy like on ia32? Piet/Pete Delaney
2002-03-26 16:06 ` Richard Hirst [this message]
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