source: final-system/sparc/silo.xml@ 7230294

Last change on this file since 7230294 was 8132e4e, checked in by Chris Staub <chris@…>, 18 years ago

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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-silo" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="silo.html"?>
10
11 <title>Silo-&silo-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo">
14 <primary sortas="a-Silo">Silo</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Silo package contains the Sparc Improved boot LOader.</para>
21
22 </sect2>
23
24 <sect2 role="installation">
25 <title>Installation of Silo</title>
26
27 <para os="a">The following patch fixes compile issues:</para>
28
29<screen os="b"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&silo-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
30
31 <para os="c">Compile the Silo package:</para>
32
33<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
34
35 <para os="d">Install the package:</para>
36
37<screen os="e"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
38
39 </sect2>
40
41 <sect2 id="contents-silo" role="content">
42 <title>Contents of Silo</title>
43
44 <segmentedlist>
45 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
46
47 <seglistitem>
48 <seg>silo, silocheck, maketile, and tilo.</seg>
49 </seglistitem>
50 </segmentedlist>
51
52 <variablelist>
53 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
54 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
55 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
56
57 <varlistentry id="silo">
58 <term><command>silo</command></term>
59 <listitem>
60 <para>Silo bootloader installer. This program installs the
61 first stage into the bootblock.</para>
62 <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo silo">
63 <primary sortas="a-silo">silo</primary>
64 </indexterm>
65 </listitem>
66 </varlistentry>
67
68 <varlistentry id="silocheck">
69 <term><command>silocheck</command></term>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>Checks to see whether a file is readable
72 by silo (very handy if you have larger disks).</para>
73 <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo silocheck">
74 <primary sortas="a-silocheck">silocheck</primary>
75 </indexterm>
76 </listitem>
77 </varlistentry>
78
79 <varlistentry id="maketilo">
80 <term><command>maketilo</command></term>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>Is a file that is called by the tilo command to build
83 a TFTP boot image.</para>
84 <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo maketilo">
85 <primary sortas="a-maketilo">maketilo</primary>
86 </indexterm>
87 </listitem>
88 </varlistentry>
89
90 <varlistentry id="tilo">
91 <term><command>tilo</command></term>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>Tilo is a tool for building a simple TFTP boot loader which
94 embodies several kernel images for different Sun architectures and
95 a ramdisk root image.</para>
96 <indexterm zone="ch-system-silo tilo">
97 <primary sortas="a-tilo">tilo</primary>
98 </indexterm>
99 </listitem>
100 </varlistentry>
101
102 </variablelist>
103
104 </sect2>
105
106</sect1>
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