Question on mknbi
Dear listmembers, are there any plans ongoing to issue a release of mknbi and imaggen for sparc? I was not able to compile mknbi because the source is set up for i386. If not, can anyone of you tell me how to create a net-boot image for a U60 on my own (which tools are required ... make bootimages for dummies or so ... ) Many thanks for your inputs, take care Dieter Jurzitza -- HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza Manager Hardware Systems System Development Industriegebiet Ittersbach Becker-Göring Str. 16 D-76307 Karlsbad / Germany Phone: +49 (0)7248 71-1577 Fax: +49 (0)7248 71-1216 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.becker.de *** Diese E-Mail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und loeschen Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the contents in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. ***
Re: Question on mknbi
The netboot package includes /usr/bin/mknbi-linux. I don't know if this is what you are looking for. Keep in mind that the Sparc hardware can only handle a.out binary on netboot. After your kernel compilation, you need to run elftoaout on your uncompressed kernel before you put it out in your tftp server. I don't know if there is any integrated packages to make the task easier. I just started playing with this couple weeks ago. You can use the kernel doc initrd.txt and the program piggyback64 to create your boot image. If you are not building sparc64 kernel, you use piggyback instead. Alex On 11/19/2004 12:21 AM, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: Dear listmembers, are there any plans ongoing to issue a release of mknbi and imaggen for sparc? I was not able to compile mknbi because the source is set up for i386. If not, can anyone of you tell me how to create a net-boot image for a U60 on my own (which tools are required ... make bootimages for dummies or so ... ) Many thanks for your inputs, take care Dieter Jurzitza
