Subject: Re: booting from solaris
To: Andrei Petrov <and@genesyslab.com>
From: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.co.za>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/11/2000 06:08:02
>
> > I strongly recommend generating an /ofwboot and using that to load the
> > kernel. However, even with that there may be filesystem issues on newer
> > versions of solaris.
> I think it may destroy my solaris. What do you think?
>
> I saw the guy was able to netboot, so I'm trying to built ofwboot for
> that purpose,
> currently I lack crt0.o what kind of surprise me.
>
> Should standalone program have crt0? Is my environment screwd?
Hehehe, I also had that problem and thought it was because of my cross
build environment so I didn't even mention it. (I'm building on a PC
running FreeBSD.) What I did was to add:
LIBCRT0= ${CURDIR}/srt0.o
to the Makefile. Maybe also for the record, I build ofwboot as a 64bit
elf binary.
John
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