Does anyone on the list have any experience building bootable linux livecds for SPARC? I've built a customized live cd previously using a Gentoo Howto [1], but it doesn't translate perfectly into SPARCese. Specifically, there comes a point in the Howto where I have to run the mkisofs command, but the mkisofs man page says I have to use the "-sparc-boot" flag if I want my CD to be bootable on SPARC.
I've found a README.sparcboot file [2] that indicates I need to grab some partition files off an existing Solaris CD. I've done that with a Solaris 7 Server CD and ran mkisofs just as it appears in the README, but I got a strange error when trying to boot from that CD. Unfortunately, the error message escapes me right now, though it wouldn't be too hard to reproduce, methinks. I also gave Gentoo's catalyst a shot, but the problem I ran into there I believe has to do with my portage snapshot basically being too new for my stage3 file. I can't build my stage1 without running into a conflict that I don't know how to resolve (this is my very first experience with catalyst). Apparently, I have a sparc-gcc package blocking a kgcc package? Something like that. Again, the exact error isn't fresh in my mind. At any rate, before I waste too much time trying to track down all of the issues, I thought I'd give a shout out here to see if anyone with experience can say, "Oh, that's a dead end," or "Have you considered this?", or "I'll do it for you for $XYZ". :) Thanks, Stephen [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_build_a_LiveCD_from_scratch [2] http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/utils/schilling/cdrecord/README.sparcboot -- Ray tracing rules: http://ray-tracer.blogspot.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
