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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-bootable-colo">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="colo.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Making the CLFS System Bootable via Colo</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-colo">
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-Colo">Colo</primary>
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| 15 | <secondary>configuring</secondary>
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| 16 | </indexterm>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <note os="a">
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| 19 | <para>This bootloader is for the MIPS based cobalt servers RaQ,
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| 20 | RaQ2, Qube, or the Qube2.</para>
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| 21 | </note>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para os="c">Your shiny new CLFS system is almost complete. One of the last
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| 24 | things to do is ensure you can boot it. The instructions below apply
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| 25 | only to Cobalt RaQ1/RaQ2/Cube2 servers. Information on <quote>boot
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| 26 | loading</quote> for other architectures should be available in the
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| 27 | usual resource-specific locations for those architectures.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 30 | href="../x86/grub.xml"
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| 31 | xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para os="d">Earlier, we compiled and installed the Cobalt boot loader
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| 34 | software in preparation for this step. Now we will configure our system
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| 35 | to boot using Colo. Here is a simple <filename>default.colo</filename>
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| 36 | to use.</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <screen><userinput>cat > /boot/default.colo << "EOF"
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| 39 | <literal>#:CoLo:#
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| 40 | #
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| 41 | # load linux
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| 42 | #
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| 43 | lcd 'Booting &linux-version;...'
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| 44 | load vmlinux-&linux-version;.gz
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| 45 | execute root=/dev/hda2 console=ttyS0,115200 ide1=noprobe</literal>
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| 46 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para os="e">Included in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/colo/examples</filename>
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| 49 | are more examples of a <filename>default.colo</filename> file.</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <para os="v">The FHS stipulates that the bootloader's configuration file should
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| 52 | be symlinked to <filename class="symlink">/etc/{Bootloader Name}</filename>.
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| 53 | To satisfy this requirement for Colo, issue the following command:</para>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <screen os="f"><userinput>mkdir -v /etc/colo &&
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| 56 | ln -sv /boot/colo/default.colo /etc/colo</userinput></screen>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | </sect1>
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