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.
Thanks Levi and Bryan for your replies. Although I didn't mention it
originally, the process I described with the Solaris 7 CDs, I did also try
with the Solaris 10 CDs. The results were similar.
At any rate, I did find a solution to the problem and figured I'd post it to
the list in case anyone is curious. I figured that if Gentoo is doing it,
and Gentoo is Open Source, there must be some way of finding out how Gentoo
is doing it. I found the answer on sources.gentoo.org [1]. Gentoo's
solution (surprisingly to me) doesn't use the -sparc-boot flag at all:
mkisofs -J -R -l -z -o ${clst_iso_path} -G /boot/isofs.b -B ...
$clst_cdroot_path
Cheers,
Stephen
[1]
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/catalyst/tags/CATALYST_1_0_1/examples/livecd/runscript/sparc64-archscript.sh?view=markup
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