On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:14:13AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:31:26AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> <sigh>
>>
>> We're late getting the r2 images created, and changes to the packages
>> that we need to use don't help. The script to make sparc CDs bootable
>> contains the following:
>>
>> silo_deb=`ls $MIRROR/pool/main/s/silo/silo_*.deb | tail -1`
>> # put the relevant parts of SILO boot loader
>> (ar p $silo_deb data.tar.gz | \
>> tar zxf - -C $inst/ ./boot/{cd,second}.b)
>>
>> This currently picks up silo_1.3.1-2_sparc.deb, which doesn't contain
>> a cd.b file at all, so the sparc build fails. Generally after an hour
>> of frantic disk-thrashing. I don't know if the change to silo is
>> deliberate or not, but for now I'm patching the script to use the bits
>> out of silo_1.2.5-2_sparc.deb instead, as that seems to have what we
>> need. If this is wrong, please shout!
>
>The silo cd boot step changed. You'll need isofs.b and second.b, and
>you'll need to move silo.conf to /boot on the CD. Then change the
>mkisofs incantation to include these bootable options:
>
> -r -G /boot/isofs.b -B ...
>
>The path to isofs.b needs to be absolute on the build machine (not
>relative to the CD root). The "..." is literal, it means use isofs.b to
>boot any sort of sparc (sun4c,sun4m,sun4d,sun4u).
Some warning of these changes would have been useful. Does this mean
that the set of images I've just produced are now useless?
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/
Attachment:
pgpA7UGjjjpKk.pgp
Description: PGP signature