Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:24:36 -0400 From: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common load_elf.c Makefile.inc Message-ID: <19980930182436.B269@kublai.com> In-Reply-To: <24630.907186571@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 01:16:11PM -0700 References: <199809302020.PAA13391@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> <24630.907186571@time.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 01:16:11PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Can someone provide a simple explanation of how the new boot blocks
> > actually work, and how to install them on the alpha and i386?
>
> Well, they don't seem to be quite ready for the i386, but on the alpha
> you simply:
>
> cd /sys/boot
> make all install
natasya:/sys/boot# make install
[snip]
===> i386/loader
install -c -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 loader
usage: install [-CcDps] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] file1 file2
install [-CcDps] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] file1 ...
fileN directory
install -d [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] directory ...
*** Error code 64
Stop.
The loader file is supposed to go in /boot, I think, so I copied it
there by hand.
--
Brian Cully <shmit@rcn.com>
``And when one of our comrades was taken prisoner, blindfolded, hung
upside-down, shot, and burned, we thought to ourselves, `These are the
best experiences of our lives''' -Pathology (Joe Frank, Somewhere Out There)
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