Description of problem: images/pseries/README reads: The files in this directory are for use in booting a pSeries machine. They are as follows: boot.iso - A bootable CD-ROM image for starting an installation on pSeries netboot.img - A network boot image for starting an installation on pSeries Actual results: There is no netboot.img file Expected results: There should be a netboot.img file for netbooting
This is because we're not getting the zImage.stub stuff on the ppc64 kernel anymore.
netboot.img was the combined kernel-and-initrd hack? I thought we dropped that because yaboot was going to be fixed so it could actually load them separately?
*** Bug 167266 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 119053 [details] Create netboot images again (for ppc32 and ppc64) zImage.stub doesn't need to be created anew with each kernel -- it can be part of the ppc64-utils package along with the mkzimage script. The current ppc64-utils package is waiting in beehive with that fix. This patch adjusts the installer accordingly. It needs to be applied on top of the patch in bug #166625, which creates a unified boot CD.
(Rationale: although yaboot _can_ be used for booting from TFTP, it's more complicated to do it that way. Not only do you have to make yaboot itself available by TFTP, but also the kernel and initrd and a hand-modified yaboot.conf pointing at them. In addition to this, yaboot can't actually read from the CD on Pegasos II machines -- so the ppc32 'netboot.img' is useful there because it means we can still boot from the CD instead of having to hack up a 'boot.ext2'.)
Paul committed this with your other ppc changes