From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:03:11 +0000
Subject: Re: TILO
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What happens when you load these via "boot net"?

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:19:32PM +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I don't know if someone of you already know, but i've been working on
> target named: CentOS-4/sparc. 
> 
> I hjaev been collecting/merging patches, building, testting, building
> again past two or so months maybe. Finally having my vacation and time
> to work full time with the problem
> 
> I did try generate installation images few day ago and realized that i
> can't make working TILO-images with anything. Tried even extracting the
> tools from Aurora 1.0 to my running system (which made a little diff.
> sized images), but those are not booting.
> 
> Is there some magic i am not avare of and should that TILO just handle
> 2.6 kernel allright?
> 
> Personally i don't see any point making public a distro that can't be
> installed with 'boot net'.
> 
> Below is example of process, which does load, but usually die with
> 'Illegal Instruction'. I think i saw 'MMU missmatch' or something once
> on Netra/X1.
> 
> [root@c4sp sparc]# tilo -o test.img vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EC-UNSTRIPPED
> initrd64.img 
> Converting vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EC-UNSTRIPPED (sun4u) to a.out:
> PT 0 Entry: Loadable to 0x400000[0x3335d0] from 0x0[0x2c6086] align
> 0x100000
> PT 1 Entry: unknown
> Compressing vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EC-UNSTRIPPED.raw:
> vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EC-UNSTRIPPED.raw:      54.5%
> Sizes (sun4u):
>   raw size     = 2891910
>   packed size  = 1316731
>   root address = 00000000007335d0
> Root image packed size = 2052036
> WARNING: Kernel for Sun4c/m/d not specified
> Images are large. Will load on machines with at least 5M mapped by PROM
> only
> TILO size = 3385579
> 
> 
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pasi Pirhonen - upi@iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/
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