David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:46:06PM -0600, phil@ipal.net wrote:
> >
> > Check in /.boot
> >
> > I'm wonding what this stuff in /boot is.
> >
>
> /boot replaces /.boot. All new ISOs are being built with the bootable
> stuff located in /boot. This change was made on 03-Nov-2000.
That was in reference to the mention that some .db files were in the /boot
directory. Maybe he was confused by .b files and said .db files.
Anyway, for all of interest, the /boot directory on the CD looks like:
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 330 Nov 6 05:00 TRANS.TBL
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Nov 1 03:04 cd.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1552905 Nov 3 19:56 color.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080 Oct 26 23:53 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58368 Nov 1 03:04 second.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285 Nov 3 21:54 silo.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1978724 Nov 1 05:29 vmlinux.sun4cdm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2574480 Nov 1 05:29 vmlinux.sun4u
and I would expect the installed /boot to be similar, except probably no
need for cd.b, color.gz, message, and TRANS.TBL. Silo needs second.b
and likes silo.conf. FYI: if you move the kernel, you do not need to
rerun the silo command (contrary to the way lilo works), but if you move
second.b then you do need to rerun silo.
Since I haven't gotten serial console to work yet, I can't see what the
installed results will look like, but I expect them to be pretty much
the same as the Intel Slackware except for the obvious Sparc differences
such as silo.conf, sun4* kernels, etc.
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