source: final-system/mips/colo.xml@ 0ee0247

Last change on this file since 0ee0247 was d1a3111, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r3840@server (orig r1732): chris | 2006-06-05 22:54:28 -0700
Added -v switches to many more commands

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