Jim Westveer wrote: > > Hurmph, > > In my zeal to update the debian-cd scripts for sparc, I first > made changes to the debian-cd script tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc, > so that it would write an "El Torito" bootable CD .
> Well duhh, that was stupid on my part! > After recovering a bit (and taking a handfull of smart pills) > I realized that if one wanted to make a bootable sparc > CD image on an intel host, perhaps I should read up a bit on > silo and intelsilo. > Not being a 'sparc' guy, I'll admit that I am now only partially > confuzed about how to do it. Therefore, I have put the file back > to an original state, as I continue to mull over how to doit. > So..i am looking for help > If you could take a look at the file in the current CVS boot-disks > that gets installed as: > /usr/share/debian-cd/tools/boot/potato/boot-sparc > Perhaps someone might have an idea on how to get it working with > intelsilo. I think it is close. Actually, IIRC, intelsilo should work identically to silo (except that it refuses to do anything except CD's - won't do HD boot blocks). One thing to watch out for - the kernel and/or root.bin cannot be the last file on the disk. The prom can't read the last blocks from the disk. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]