source: BOOK/final-system/sparc/silo.xml@ a624ab5

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

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo">
    <primary sortas="a-Silo">Silo</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>The Silo package contains the Sparc Improved boot LOader.</para>

  </sect2>

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

    <para os="a">The following patch fixes compile issues:</para>

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

    <para os="c">Compile the Silo package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

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

<screen os="e"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-silo" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Silo</title>

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>silo, silocheck, maketile, and tilo.</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry id="silo">
        <term><command>silo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Silo bootloader installer. This program installs the
          first stage into the bootblock.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo silo">
            <primary sortas="b-silo">silo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="silocheck">
        <term><command>silocheck</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Checks to see whether a file is readable
           by silo (very handy if you have larger disks).</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo silocheck">
            <primary sortas="b-silocheck">silocheck</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="maketilo">
        <term><command>maketilo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Is a file that is called by the tilo command to build
          a TFTP boot image.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo maketilo">
            <primary sortas="b-maketilo">maketilo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="tilo">
        <term><command>tilo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Tilo is a tool for building a simple TFTP boot loader which
           embodies several kernel images for different Sun architectures and
           a ramdisk root image.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo tilo">
            <primary sortas="b-tilo">tilo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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