From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 30 15:25:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10698 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from smtp3.erols.com (smtp3.erols.com [207.172.3.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10610; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shmit@natasya.noc.erols.net) Received: from natasya.noc.erols.net (natasya.noc.erols.net [207.172.25.236]) by smtp3.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA06874; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:24:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from shmit@localhost) by natasya.noc.erols.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA00352; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:24:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980930182436.B269@kublai.com> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:24:36 -0400 From: Brian Cully To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Chris Csanady Cc: Peter Wemm , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common load_elf.c Makefile.inc Reply-To: shmit@kublai.com References: <199809302020.PAA13391@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> <24630.907186571@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <24630.907186571@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 01:16:11PM -0700 X-Sender: If your mailer pays attention to this, it's broken. X-PGP-Info: finger shmit@kublai.com for my public key. Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ``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)