Hi, On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:15:55PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 04/03/2017 11:13 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote: > > Are you able to look into a compressed kernel as well? As suggested by > > Aaro. Or do we need a TILO patch, handeling such an kernel? > > Hmm, not sure what you mean. The kernel that d-i uses for the cdrom and > netboot > images is already compressed: > > root@stadler:/srv/d-i/debian-installer/installer/build/tmp/netboot# file > vmlinuz-4.9.0-2-sparc64 > vmlinuz-4.9.0-2-sparc64: gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix > root@stadler:/srv/d-i/debian-installer/installer/build/tmp/netboot#
The image that is loaded by "boot net" is the boot.img file, and the kernel there is uncompressed. $ strings boot.img | grep Linux | head -5 Linux version 4.9.0-2-sparc64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 6.3.0 20170321 (Debian 6.3.0-11) ) #1 Debian 4.9.18-1 (2017-03-30) Linux panicing Linux rebooting Linux powering off Linux halting A.