Subject: Re: Boot program for sun4
To: Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/16/1996 10:44:19
On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:38:42 +0100 (MET)
Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se> wrote:
> Does the NetBSD version of /boot work as a netboot primary kernel for a
> sun 4/330. It wors fine with our diskless ELC:s, but gives an "illegal
> instruction" on a sun 4/330.
Yah, it works. What you need to do on the sun4 is remove the first 32
bytes (a.out header) of the boot program:
dd if=/usr/mdec/boot of=/boot skip=1 bs=32
Also, look at the "binstall" script that deals with installing the boot
code for you...
Ciao.
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