source: BOOK/final-system/mips/colo.xml@ 79f5dfb

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Last change on this file since 79f5dfb was 3f339fd, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r748@server (orig r746): jim | 2005-11-23 16:59:43 -0800

r770@server: jim | 2005-11-23 16:59:11 -0800
Updates to colo for MIPS - RaQ2


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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-system-colo" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="colo.html"?>
10
11 <title>Colo-&colo-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo">
14 <primary sortas="a-Colo">Colo</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Colo package contains the Cobalt Boot Loader.</para>
21
22 <segmentedlist>
23 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
24
25 <seglistitem>
26 <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc,
27 Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg>
28 </seglistitem>
29 </segmentedlist>
30
31 </sect2>
32
33 <sect2 role="installation">
34 <title>Installation of Colo</title>
35
36 <note os="a">
37 <para>This bootloader is for the MIPS based cobalt servers RaQ,
38 RaQ2, Qube, or the Qube2.</para>
39 </note>
40
41 <para os="b">Compile the Colo package:</para>
42
43<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para os="c">Install the package:</para>
46
47<screen os="d"><userinput>install -d /usr/lib/colo/examples
48install chain/colo-chain.elf /usr/lib/colo
49install tools/lcdtools/e2fsck-lcd/e2fsck-lcd /sbin
50install tools/lcdtools/e2fsck-lcd/e2fsck-lcd.8 /usr/man/man8
51install tools/lcdtools/paneld/paneld /sbin
52install tools/lcdtools/paneld/paneld.8 /usr/man/man8
53install tools/lcdtools/putlcd/putlcd /sbin
54install tools/lcdtools/putlcd/putlcd.8 /usr/man/man8
55install examples/menu.colo /usr/lib/colo/examples
56install examples/simple.colo /usr/lib/colo/examples
57cp chain/colo-chain.elf /boot/vmlinux
58gzip -9 /boot/vmlinux</userinput></screen>
59
60 </sect2>
61
62 <sect2 id="contents-colo" role="content">
63 <title>Contents of Colo</title>
64
65 <segmentedlist>
66 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
67
68 <seglistitem>
69 <seg>colo-chain.elf, e2fsck-lcd, paneld and putlcd</seg>
70 </seglistitem>
71 </segmentedlist>
72
73 <variablelist>
74 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
75 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
76 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
77
78 <varlistentry id="colo-chain.elf">
79 <term><command>colo</command></term>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>Is the Cobalt Bootloader's chain mode executeable. This
82 file gets gzipped and renamed to <filename>vmlinux.gz</filename>,
83 so it can be booted automatically by the Cobalt's existing
84 firmware</para>
85 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-chain.elf">
86 <primary sortas="b-colo-chain.elf">colo-chain.elf</primary>
87 </indexterm>
88 </listitem>
89 </varlistentry>
90
91 <varlistentry id="e2fsck-lcd">
92 <term><command>e2fsck-lcd</command></term>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>Will output file system check progress information on the
95 Cobalt LCD</para>
96 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo e2fsck-lcd">
97 <primary sortas="b-e2fsck-lcd">e2fsck-lcd</primary>
98 </indexterm>
99 </listitem>
100 </varlistentry>
101
102 <varlistentry id="paneld">
103 <term><command>paneld</command></term>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>Is an admin tool for the LCD panel of Cobalt machines. By
106 default, it will display the current time and optionally a message.
107 When you hold the enter or select button for a couple of seconds
108 you will get an admin menu. The menu will allow you to either halt
109 or reboot your Cobalt machine</para>
110 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo paneld">
111 <primary sortas="b-paneld">paneld</primary>
112 </indexterm>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115
116 <varlistentry id="putlcd">
117 <term><command>putlcd</command></term>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>Is a tool to display text on the LCD display of Cobalt
120 machines</para>
121 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo putlcd">
122 <primary sortas="b-putlcd">putlcd</primary>
123 </indexterm>
124 </listitem>
125 </varlistentry>
126
127 <varlistentry id="md5rom">
128 <term><command>md5rom</command></term>
129 <listitem>
130 <para>Will output the MD5 checksum of a Cobalt's ROM</para>
131 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo md5rom">
132 <primary sortas="b-md5rom">md5rom</primary>
133 </indexterm>
134 </listitem>
135 </varlistentry>
136
137 </variablelist>
138
139 </sect2>
140
141</sect1>
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