On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:11:11PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > > > U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as > > > mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk > > > image and outputs a bootable image) > > > > That's crap. Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able > > to load a plain vmlinux. > > Does that include a ramdisk? My understanding was that you need > either a bootloader or a bootable image like the one describer above > in order to boot an initrd kernel. On sub-architectures that don't > have a bootloader, such as PReP or CHRP, this leaves only the bootable > image.
Supposedly, a yaboot2 should be able to work without problems on all of those, once it is ready though. Friendly, Sven Luther
