tftp64.img ?

Vincent Cojot <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:10:03 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi spot and others...

I am able to rebuild successfully on my Ultra2 box the sparc64 kernel:

rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.20-2.31sparc.src.rpm (from the updates)

rpm -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.4.spec

which gives me:
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/sparc64/kernel-2.4.20-2.31sparc.sparc64.rpm
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/sparc64/kernel-smp-2.4.20-2.31sparc.sparc64.rpm
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/sparc64/kernel-BOOT-2.4.20-2.31sparc.sparc64.rpm
/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/kernel-2.4.20-2.31sparc.src.rpm

(Don't mock me, I've seen cases in the RH5.x RH6.x era when the src.rpm
wouldn't rebuild itself...)

Now, what do I do with kernel-BOOT in order to build a new tftp64.img?

I'm guessing that I will have to build the boot kernel manually and run
piggyback from there or can I just rpm2cpio it and create a new initrd to
be merged into tftp64.img?

The tftp64.img appears to be a sparc executable which means
arch/sparc64/boot/piggyback was run on it but it would bootstrap me a
little if you could help me a little with the procedure on how to actually
do that.. I found references to a tool named tftpboot.sh but that's for
debian mostly so it might be a little different for Aurora.

I just want to boot that F15K domain and see how many cpus/GB's the kernel
can take.. :)

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