From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hirst Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:06:00 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel make install - why don't we make it easy like on ia32? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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