Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 18:32:59 +0300 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> To: Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net> Cc: sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64 bootable CD Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.10.10208201815420.116924-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> In-Reply-To: <20020820140908.GB1130@crow.dom2ip.de>
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Thomas Moestl wrote: > On Tue, 2002/08/20 at 16:31:49 +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > Its more complicated than I thought. > > It is pretty straightforward for sparc in NetBSD > > http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#sparcimage > > I was actually trying to make bootable images for sparc64 in brothers of > > FreeBSD =) The NetBSD and OpenBSD and I thought since there is a working > > sparc64 image in FreeBSD (I already installed it and made a installation > > document) I thought the FreeBSD people would know the thing I am doing > > wrong. > > I downloaded the miniroot.fs and made a iso with mkisofs with > > NetBSD and OpenBSD files and then I tried to do > > mksunbootcd output.sio miniroot.fs miniroot.fs miniroot.fs > > but well something went wrong. > > Humm, what exactly? I think OpenBSD said "The file just loaded does not appear to be executable" But =) Now when I tried again I issued "boot cdrom:b" and it worked. I guess I was just impatient with this so my impatience made me fail. Perhaps tomorrow I should try NetBSD again with different options. Then return to you. About NetBSD I am not able to remember at the moment what was wrong because when it didnt succeed I destroyed the ISO image =) I will do the same image again and try to run NetBSD again. If it doesnt work then I will come back and complain =) > > Any suggestions? > > NetBSD offers bootable images now > (http://www.de.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/faq.html#cdrominstall), and Well that is some 17mb image and it is crashing at boot. It says Kernel size exceeds 4MB Setting DTLB entry ......... Setting DTLB entry ......... Setting ITLB entry ......... Thats all. I am sorry for the dots =) but I don't have a console cable so I cant copy paste the exact message. But tomorrow I will try my way again and lets see what will happen.. > OpenBSD's code is in general more similar to NetBSD's, so it would > probably be helpful to ask on the NetBSD lists. > AFAIK The mksunbootcd tool will just put a root fs image into the > correct slice (and the correct slice for sparc64 differs form the > sparc one, so you will at least need to append miniroot.fs three other > times), and it depends quite a lot on the kernel handling whether such > an embedded slice on a device with a non-disk block size can even be > mounted correctly (IIRC NetBSD could not do this, so they probably > have chosen another method now). > > - thomas > > -- > Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ > <tmm@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ > PGP fingerprint: 1C97 A604 2BD0 E492 51D0 9C0F 1FE6 4F1D 419C 776C > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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