source: bootable/mips/arcload.xml @ 3122a12

Last change on this file since 3122a12 was d9c726d, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r875@server (orig r873): jciccone | 2005-12-08 12:55:39 -0800
Updated arcload so that the kernel is copied to the volume header properly

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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-bootable-arcload">
9  <?dbhtml filename="arcload.html"?>
10
11  <title>Making the LFS System Bootable via Arcload</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-bootable-arcload">
14    <primary sortas="a-Arcload">Arcload</primary>
15    <secondary>configuring</secondary>
16  </indexterm>
17
18  <note os="a">
19    <para>This bootloader is for the MIPS based SGI Workstations and
20    Servers.</para>
21  </note>
22
23  <para os="b">Earlier, we compiled and installed the Arcload  boot loader
24  software in preparation for this step. Now we will configure our system
25  to boot using Arcload. Here is a simple <filename>arc.cf</filename>
26  to use.</para>
27
28<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /boot/arc.cf &lt;&lt; "EOF"
29<literal>append  "root=/dev/sda3";
30append  "console=ttyS0,9600";
31
32CLFS {
33  &linux-version; {
34    description  "&linux-version;";
35    image system "/&linux-version;";
36  }
37
38  debug {
39    description  "Debug Shell";
40    append "init=/bin/bash";
41  }
42}</literal>
43EOF</userinput></screen>
44
45  <para os="c">Now we use dvhtool to make the system bootable:</para>
46
47<screen os="d"><userinput>dvhtool --unix-to-vh /usr/lib/arcload/sash sash
48dvhtool --unix-to-vh /boot/arc.cf arc.cf
49dvhtool --unix-to-vh /boot/&linux-version; &linux-version;</userinput></screen>
50
51</sect1>
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