Subject: Re: booting from solaris
To: Andrei Petrov <and@genesyslab.com>
From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/11/2000 06:08:02
> 
> > I strongly recommend generating an /ofwboot and using that to load the
> > kernel.  However, even with that there may be filesystem issues on newer
> > versions of solaris.
> I think it may destroy my solaris. What do you think?
> 
> I saw the guy was able to netboot, so I'm trying to built ofwboot for
> that purpose,
> currently I lack crt0.o what kind of surprise me.
> 
> Should standalone program have crt0? Is my environment screwd?

Hehehe, I also had that problem and thought it was because of my cross
build environment so I didn't even mention it. (I'm building on a PC
running FreeBSD.) What I did was to add:

LIBCRT0=        ${CURDIR}/srt0.o

to the Makefile. Maybe also for the record, I build ofwboot as a 64bit
elf binary.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za