Re: netboot image: Nope, kernel gzip'ed! :-(

Andreas Jaehnigen wrote: > Hi there, > > It seems to me as if the kernel image on Sparc is a gzip'ed binary, right? > (/etc/silo.conf points to a file vmlinuz, and file(1) says "gzip data") > Why is this?? silo is able to handle compressed kernel like this. No need for builtin gunzip in the kern

netboot image: Nope, kernel gzip'ed! :-(

Hi there, It seems to me as if the kernel image on Sparc is a gzip'ed binary, right? (/etc/silo.conf points to a file vmlinuz, and file(1) says "gzip data") Why is this?? I have troubles here using the "mknbi-linux" command from the "netboot" package. "mknbi-linux" complains about "Bad magic numbe

Storing devalias's into nvram

How do you reset a devalias, and store it into nvram? I'd like to change the device disk0 to point to a different value and then store it in nvram reason being. thanks in advance, -- Chris <- Visit Me At -> <---

Kernel compilation, why no fpu

I'm compiling 2.2.9 on a spacstation 2 and the CFLAGS entry in the arch makefile specify the "-mno-fpu" flag, why is this? thanks, -- Chris <- Visit Me At -> <-->