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Re: linux and mklinuximage take 2

Hi Vaughan,

Maybe this a little too little and a little too late, but we have been
working with this at OIT for a quarter now and have discovered the easiest
thing to do is use GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader). Grub is available as an
installation option in the Mandrake Linux 8.0 install. When you use GRUB all
you need to do is create the examples (e.g. "hello") which are multiboot
images. GRUB will then recognize the image without any further processing
(i.e. mklinuximage, mkmbimage, mkbsdimage, etc.). Not only does it take away
from a step here, but when you get a kernel that runs up against the 640K
boundary, you do not have to wave any dead chickens over the bootloader to
get it to work.

Good Luck,

Jim Long

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vaughan Knight" <vsk01@uow.edu.au>
To: "Patrick Tullmann" <tullmann@cs.utah.edu>
Cc: <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:07 PM
Subject: linux and mklinuximage take 2


> >From reading the configure scripts, I have found that my system does
> support '-oformat binary' but the problem appears to arise over the fact
> that in the configure script, 'flux_cv_HAVE_CODE16=no'.  To create the
> mklinuximage script flux_cv_HAVE_CODE16 must equal yes.
>
> I don't have any idea what this means or how it can be fixed.
>
> Again, any help appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vaughan Knight
>
> > Vaughan Knight wrote:
> >
> > > From what I gather, I am currently trying to use mklinuximage so i
> > > can test my kernels under linux, but, mklinuximage does not exist.
> >
> > mklinuximage is only "built" (converted from .in to a shell script) if
> > you have a linker which supports the appropriate arguments ... I
> > forget what they are, but the magic that checks this is in the
> > configure script..
> >
> > Looking in configure.in, it says its testing for '-oformat binary'.
> >
> > I can't offer any real help on getting a linker that supports '-oformat
> > binary' other than to point you at a recent GNU binutils(?).
> >
> > -Pat
> >
> > ----- ----- ---- ---  ---  --   -    -      -         -               -
> > Pat Tullmann                                       tullmann@cs.utah.edu
> >           This signature witticism intentionally left blank.
>
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