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| author | Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandriva.com> | 2001-03-29 22:47:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandriva.com> | 2001-03-29 22:47:09 +0000 |
| commit | 84adb9036e99bc2e7560135694197b9312faa9e6 (patch) | |
| tree | dfdc79ddfc972f2167c67ff96af51fbec5a7518c /docs | |
| parent | 094971eecb7a5df84b325de8c6ae46e88fc1f0ea (diff) | |
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support more than one boot kernel :-)
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/HACKING | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/README | 7 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/docs/HACKING b/docs/HACKING index b35825449..313866401 100644 --- a/docs/HACKING +++ b/docs/HACKING @@ -61,20 +61,21 @@ gc ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/patch,NOPASSWD:/bin/rpm,NOPASSWD:/bin/mount,NOPA (4) boot kernel -you need a boot kernel and some kind of modules for each boot floppy. it's -located in subdirectory "kernel" in DrakX-*.src.rpm ; if you ever grab (or -build) another boot kernel, re-do following step (c). +you need one or more kernels and (all?) their modules. it's located in +subdirectory "all.kernels" in DrakX-*.src.rpm ; if you ever grab (or +build) another boot kernel, replace or add an entry in "all.kernels" as: - (a) build the packager software for stage1 (read README file to know what's stage1) - [gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi] cd mdk-stage1/mar - [gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi/mdk-stage1/mar] make + (a) create your modules subdir (useful to describe the + VERSION_RELEASE) and untar your kernel - (b) build the perl stuff for stage2 - [gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi] cd perl-install - [gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi/perl-install] make +[gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi/all.kernels] mkdir 2.4.1-BOOTcustom +[gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi/all.kernels] cd 2.4.1-BOOTcustom +[gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi/all.kernels/2.4.1-BOOTcustom] tar jxvf ~/mycustomkernel.tar.bz2 +[gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi/all.kernels/2.4.1-BOOTcustom] ls +boot/ cardmgr/ lib/ (c) build kernel/modules stuff for stage1 and stage2 - [gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi] ./update_kernel +[gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi] ./update_kernel (5) pray diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README index 7cbdd66c0..71b23c84d 100644 --- a/docs/README +++ b/docs/README @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ For pcmcia, it depends on the type of install. ******************************************************************************** Modules can be found in at least 2 places: - in /modules/modules.mar -- in /lib/modules.cz2 +- in /lib/modules.cz<KERNEL_VERSION_RELEASE> /modules/modules.mar is used in mdk-stage1. It contains only modules interesting for one kind of install. For example in an hd install, it @@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ modules. (To create, extract or view files in a ``mar'' archive, please use gi/mdk-stage1/mar/mar; this is basically an archive format meant to be minimalistic) -/lib/modules.cz2 contains every module, it is used in stage2. +/lib/modules.cz<KERNEL_VERSION_RELEASE> contains all modules, it is used +in stage2. To install a module, use modprobe which is in /usr/bin. It's a perl wrapper @@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ around /usr/bin/insmod. It uses the dependencies found in /modules/modules.dep (stage1). /usr/bin/insmod is a wrapper around /usr/bin/insmod_. It just extracts the -module out of /lib/modules.cz2 in /tmp. Then it calls insmod_. +module out of /lib/modules.cz in /tmp. Then it calls insmod_. /usr/bin/insmod_ is the real prog (which you usually find in /sbin/). You need to give it the complete path. |