source: bootable/mips64/arcload.xml@ 30e566e

Last change on this file since 30e566e was e1188cb, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r876@server (orig r874): jciccone | 2005-12-08 13:46:26 -0800
Updated arcload so that the kernel is copied to the volume header properly

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[166a2dd]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/sash64 sash64
48dvhtool --unix-to-vh /boot/arc.cf arc.cf
[e1188cb]49dvhtool --unix-to-vh /boot/&linux-version; &linux-version;</userinput></screen>
[166a2dd]50
51</sect1>
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