[suse-sparc] How to generate a tftp.img from scratch

From: Lieven Buts (lieven@ultr.vub.ac.be)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 06:04:19 PST

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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 15:04:19 +0100
From: Lieven Buts <lieven@ultr.vub.ac.be>
Subject: [suse-sparc] How to generate a tftp.img from scratch

      You need a kernel and a compressed image of a root file system.
    Put the compressed image in the location indicated in
    ${kernelsource}/arch/sparc64/boot/Makefile and run
    "make tftpboot.img" in ${kernelsource}. (${kernelsource}
    is the base directory of the source tree with the
    desired kernel.) make then generates a tftp boot image
    by combining the kernel (${kernelsource}/vmlinux), the
    system map (System.map) and your root filesystem.
    The tftp image ends up in ${kernelsource}/arch/sparc64/boot.

      The main challenge is creating a working root file system.
    I have tried this myself (*), but it's not working perfectly
    yet.

    (*) http://ultr16.vub.ac.be/SciComp/sparclinux.html 

    -- 
Lieven Buts
Department of Ultrastructure
Brussels Free University

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