On Oct 15 2003, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Did this work with a kernel 2.4? Do you know which options you need for > running the kernel on an oldworld (minimal .config would be nice to have).
I put a slim .config that I have used to boot an oldworld (PMac 9500 180MP) at <http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/config-2.4.23-pre5-ben0-1.ow>. It has few options turned on, but serves as a proof of concept for booting a 2.4 kernel on oldworlds. > Do you think it would be possible to make a minimal kernel (everything > not needed for booting into an initrd in modules) that works on > newworlds and oldworlds and fits on a floppy (compressed) at the same > time? Or should we simply forget that and build a seperate kernel for > oldworlds with another configuration? >From my experiments, the kernel from Debian proper (2.4.22-powerpc-smp), when gzipped, takes about 1.5MB, which is obviously quite a lot for a floppy. OTOH, it boots and works ok with quik on said oldworld. If some support is removed from it, then I'd guess that one could squeeze a kernel that works with both oldworlds and newworlds into a boot floppy with miboot. It seems that miboot takes about 100-150kb of the boot floppy. I can provide the image of the floppy I made, if there is any interest in it (based on woody's boot floopy). Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=