Subject: Re: building fresh kernel
To: Jonathan R. Hinds <jon@fork.yi.org>
From: David W. Robinson <dwrob@gasou.edu>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 12/05/2001 20:21:33
Jonathan R. Hinds wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just got my dreamcast (manufactured Sept. 2000) and bba the other day. I
> burned the diskjuggler image from http://www.roadsign.com/dc/ and it works
> great. Now what I want to do is build, write and boot a more recent
> kernel. Let me know if these are the correct steps:
>
> 1. Checkout source
> 2. Compile
> 3. Scramble kernel
> 4. Make audio track
> 5. Make iso containing kernel
> 6. Somehow make an IP.BIN that points to kernel
> 7. Insert IP.BIN into the first 16 blocks of iso image
> 8. Burn audio track
> 9. Burn iso image
>
> Is this what needs to be done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --jon
>
>
>
See Marcus Comstedt's page
http://mc.pp.se/dc/cdr.html
on how to do Step 6. You need his utility "IP Creator" at
http://mc.pp.se/dc/files/makeip.tar.gz to create IP.BIN.
You are ahead of me in actually compiling a new kernel, though.
-- David Robinson