Re: rdev under sparc?
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:21:44PM -0400, Brennan Thompson wrote:
> I am looking to build a custom boot/root disk under Debian/Sparc. How
> can I go about setting the root device without rdev (which, as I
> understand it, only works under i386)? Or should I be using SILO to do
> this (and if so, how)?
>
> On another note, does anyone know how to "piggyback" a ramdisk to the
> end of an a.out kernel to create a tftpboot.img? TILO seems like a good
> choice, but only seems to want to use an ELF kernel (and two, at that -
> one for sun4cdm and one for sun4u - which I don't need).
TILO works with just one kernel aswell. It just outputs a message when
one is missing. There's also piggyback and piggyback64 which is included
in the sparc-utils package (default install).
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