source: BOOK/final-system/mips/arcload.xml@ 47252ad

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<sect1 id="ch-system-arcload" role="wrap">
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  <title>Arcload-&arcload-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-arcload">
    <primary sortas="a-Arcload">Arcload</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Arcload package contains a SGI Bootloader.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc,
        Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed, dvhtool</seg>
      </seglistitem>
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  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Arcload</title>

 <note os="a">
    <para>This program is the Arcload bootloader, which is for
    SGI Workstations and SGI Servers based on MIPS Processors.</para>
  </note>

    <para os="b">This patch updates the Arcload bootloader:</para>

<screen os="c"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&arcload-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="e"><userinput>make MODE=M32 clean
make CC="gcc" LD="ld" MODE=M32</userinput></screen>

    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>install -d /usr/lib/arcload
cp arcload.ecoff /usr/lib/arcload/sash</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-arcload" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Arcload</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>To be Determined</seg>
      </seglistitem>
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        <term><command>colo</command></term>
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          <para>Is the Cobalt Bootloader's chain mode executeable. This
          file gets gzipped and renamed to <filename>vmlinux.gz</filename>,
          so it can be booted automatically by the Cobalt's existing
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