Re: tftp64.img ?

Just a quick followup.

I realized that initrd64.img was most likely the root image I was looking
for.. So I guess it's a matter for updated modules.cgz, modules.dep and
modules.info in the modules directory and then piggybacking the whole
thing...

Vincent

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Vincent Cojot wrote:

>
> 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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