<meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 1.9.104 (Linux)"><meta name="CREATED" content="20070228;19153100"><meta name="CHANGED" content="20070228;19243600"> <style> <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> </style> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">hi all</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I have powerpc 604 and MVME 3604 and I want to run the linux 2.4.18 on that platform.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So i follow the following instruction to compile 2.4.18 for powerpc604</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br> </div> <ol><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Install crosstool for the powerpc604 (from kegel.com) in /opt/crosstool</div> </li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Then i download 2.4.18 kernel. </div>
<ol><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">3. then i go to kernel source directory and run make ARCH=ppc xconfig</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">4. then make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-604-linux-gnu- dep bzImage</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">5. i found following images in my kernel source directory </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">i.e <home>/linux/2.4.18/arch/ppc/boot/images</div><ol><ol><ol><ol><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">vmlinux</div> </li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">zImage.chrp</div> </li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">vmlinux.coff</div> </li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">zImage.pmac</div> </li><li><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">zImage.prep</div></li></ol></ol></ol></ol></ol></li></ol> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="OpenOffice.org 1.9.104 (Linux)"><meta name="CREATED"
content="20070228;19153100"><meta name="CHANGED" content="20070228;19243600"> <style> <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom </style><br> Now What is the step to boot with this images ?<br> which is the main image to boot ?<br> whether it will give me command prompt?<br> I am using tornado for interfacing with powerpc (PPC604)<br> <br> Regards <br> Nirav<br> <br> <br> <p> 
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