Subject: Re: Bootable CD-ROM HowTo Question
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
From: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/18/2004 12:17:49
Hi,

C'est alors (le Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:05:53 -0400) que "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> dit :

> I just made a CD-ROM from the 07/15 sparc64 -current snapshot on
> releng.* (the last one).  Every time I boot it on U10, I get a "Short
> Read" error.  Only the cdrom:f partition is showing some life, the rest
> are "The file loaded does not appear to be executable...".
> 
> So:
> 
> 1) With regard to instructions on fetching boot.fs{,.gz}, should the
> file be gunzip(1)'d or not before i run sunbootcd.sh ?  The reason I ask
> is because the FAQ is a bit ambiguous (it doesn't explicitly say to
> gunzip, but it's inferred by the example command), and because
> sunbootcd.sh will not error if you pass it the .gz
> 
> 2) Are there any LE/BE/any-endian issues here? I'm making my ISO on an
> i386 machine, as well as the sunlabel(8)'ing it.

 I do my sparc64 boot CD on my i386 laptop.
 I gunzip the boot file to match "sunbootcd.sh output.iso - - - - boot.fs".
 I even once did the mkisofs on OpenBSD/sparc64 and the sunbootcd.sh on my i386 NetBSD laptop.

 Last iso I did was for 2.0-BETA a few (4 or 5) weeks ago.