[slackintosh-users] Re: Newbie needs kernel help

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:27:38 -0700
James Lay <jlay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey all!
> 
> Slackintosh newbie here, so be gentle please :D  Real quick, I snagged
> the kernel sources, slapped um into /usr/src and grabbed the config
> off the web site.  Did make mrproper then make all then make
> modules_install, but for the life of me I'm not sure which kernel to
> copy over into boot and add to /etc/yaboot.conf.  In the x86 world it
> would be bzImage, but which is it in the ppc world?  I headed the
> running /boot/vmlinux kernel and I know it's an elf file, but when I
> tried to copy vmlinux.bin or vmlinux.coff or some of the other ones
> over and boot them it either hangs or tells me it's not an ELF file.
> Help!
> 
> Thanks all!
> 
> James
> 


Thanks for the help folks...didn't know it was
the /usr/src/linux/vmlinux kernel.  I'm set to go...thanks again!

James

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