hi- did you get any responses to your question?
At around Wed, 12 Aug 1998 05:42:30 +0200, "Robert J. Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> may have mentioned: > Every time I pick up a new Debian drop from scratch (ie use the install > disks), I have to find the special "tecra" disks since on all portables > I have installed Debian on, the standard disks, being bzImage do not > boot. i have a thinkpad for which even the tecra disks don't seem to work -- i have created a custom rescue disk (w/ a lot of help from this list) that works. i too would like to not have to go to this trouble. > I also have to take care since after the base install, the standard > kernel-image files which are usually preselected by dselect, would > render my system unbootable again. yup, me too. > At the end of the base install, I must install the compiler, ther kernel > sources and run a make-kpkg --zimage --revision mymachine.1 kernel_image > and install the resulting package prior to the first reboot. i do something similar -- though i put: kimage := zImage in /etc/kernel-pkg.conf (though i have to remember to do this for each installation). > All of this would not be necessary if Debian's kernel format was zImage. > > Why isn't this desirable ? In most contributions to this list, when it > comes to kernel compiling I very often see make zimage or make-kpkg > --zimage crop up ... <may be totally wrong> i have this vague recollection of reading that a patch was submitted (to what i don't remember -- it might have been the kernel) to address this problem and that it hadn't been incorporated yet. if that is the case, then the tecra disks may be seen as a temporary measure for a problem which may go away w/ time. </may be totally wrong> -sen
