Create a bootable cd on Sparc Solaris 8 - VTOC is a mess !!!

Create a bootable cd on Sparc Solaris 8 - VTOC is a mess !!!

Post by Mich » Fri, 21 Dec 2001 00:39:57



Hi,

I am trying to burn a bootable sparc solaris cd along with my own
software.
The thing is that the cd partitions changed from Solaris 7 (s1 became
s0 and vice-versa), and when I create the cd with "mkisofs -R
-sparc-boot sun4 sun4c sun4m sun4d sun4u -U -o boot.imag /bootcd_usr"
I cannot boot from it, because sun4, which is s0 partition supposed to
contain a symlink to s1, contains everything from s1, and on s1 I have
a symlink to s1.
In my burned CD, it looks something like that:

Quote:>ls /cdrom/cdrom0/s0

a            devices      lost+found   platform     sbin        
webstart
bin          etc          mnt          proc         tmp
cdrom        kernel       netmask      reconfigure  usr
dev          lib          opt          rr_moved     var

Quote:>ls /cdrom/cdrom0/s1

dr-xr-xr-x   2 root     sys         2048 Jun  7  2001 .
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     nobody       512 Dec 19 10:55 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other         51 Jun  7  2001 .volume.inf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other      55909 Jun  7  2001
add_install_client
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other          5 Jun  7  2001 Boot -> ../s1
-r--r--r--   1 root     other       5953 Jun  7  2001 Copyright
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other       3452 Jun  7  2001
modify_install_server

In the original CD, it looks like that:

Quote:>ls /cdrom/cdrom0/s0

dr-xr-xr-x   2 root     sys         2048 Jun  7  2001 .
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     nobody       512 Dec 19 17:34 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other         51 Jun  7  2001 .volume.inf
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other          5 Jun  7  2001 Boot -> ../s1
-r--r--r--   1 root     other       5953 Jun  7  2001 Copyright
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other      55909 Jun  7  2001
add_install_client
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     other       3452 Jun  7  2001
modify_install_server
Quote:>ls /cdrom/cdrom0/s1

a            devices      mnt          proc         usr
bin          etc          netmask      reconfigure  var
cdrom        kernel       opt          sbin         webstart
dev          lib          platform     tmp

How Can I switch between the two partitions for the burned CD ?

Thanks,

Michal

 
 
 

1. FAQ: Creating sparc bootable CD. [OpenBSD31]

I've seen several references to this request, with well documented
results. (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/260/1999/11/0/2894979/)

However these results have little bearing on my situation. I am attempting
to burn an OpenBSD 3.1 CDRom from the downloaded directory structure (of
course) under Linux (Hey it's an easier desktop system, VMWare, and
Ximian!), and have attempted to the following procedure.

1. mkisofs -o /fs02/OpenBSD-3.1-sparc.iso -T -l -L -V "OpenBSD31SPARC" \
`find * -prune ! -name i386 -a ! -name sparc -a ! -name packages | xargs`
        The find was there to prune out the stuff that I didn't really want on
the disk :)

2. mksunbootcd -d -v /fs02/OpenBSD-3.1-sparc.iso floppy31.fs floppy31.fs \
floppy31.fs #( also tried the bsd.rd file )

3. Burn CD.

4. Throw CD into garbage as it is now a Frisbee ^TM (Whamo!)

If ya'll could point be to the vicinity of a more appropriate instruction
set I'd surely appreciate it :)

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