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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-bootable-colo">
9  <?dbhtml filename="colo.html"?>
10
[fb40919]11  <title>Making the CLFS System Bootable via Colo</title>
[3f8be484]12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-colo">
14    <primary sortas="a-Colo">Colo</primary>
15    <secondary>configuring</secondary>
16  </indexterm>
17
18  <note os="a">
19    <para>This bootloader is for the MIPS based cobalt servers RaQ,
20    RaQ2, Qube, or the Qube2.</para>
21  </note>
22
[fb40919]23  <para os="c">Your shiny new CLFS system is almost complete. One of the last
[3f8be484]24  things to do is ensure you can boot it. The instructions below apply
[0935d01]25  only to Cobalt RaQ1/RaQ2/Cube2 servers. Information on <quote>boot
[3f8be484]26  loading</quote> for other architectures should be available in the
27  usual resource-specific locations for those architectures.</para>
28
29  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
30  href="../x86/grub.xml"
31  xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
32
33  <para os="d">Earlier, we compiled and installed the Cobalt boot loader
34  software in preparation for this step. Now we will configure our system
[0935d01]35  to boot using Colo. Here is a simple <filename>default.colo</filename>
[3f8be484]36  to use.</para>
37
38<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /boot/default.colo &lt;&lt; "EOF"
39<literal>#:CoLo:#
40#
41# load linux
42#
[43daa01]43lcd 'Booting &linux-version;...'
44load vmlinux-&linux-version;.gz
[3f8be484]45execute root=/dev/hda2 console=ttyS0,115200 ide1=noprobe</literal>
46EOF</userinput></screen>
47
48  <para os="e">Included in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/colo/examples</filename>
49  are more examples of a <filename>default.colo</filename> file.</para>
50
[a3c498b]51  <para os="v">The FHS stipulates that the bootloader's configuration file shoul
52d
53  be symlinked to <filename class="symlink">/etc/{Bootloader Name}</filename>.
54  To satisfy this requirement for Colo, issue the following command:</para>
[3f8be484]55
[661d1a4]56<screen os="f"><userinput>mkdir -v /etc/colo &amp;&amp;
57ln -sv /boot/colo/default.colo /etc/colo</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]58
59</sect1>
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