How to make boot-floppies from initrd and vmlinuz files
I am trying to install SuSE Linux sparc on an UltraSparc I and have asked on the sparc list on how to make boot floppies for this system since it demands a 64-bit kernel on the boot floppy instead on the 32-bit kernel in the floppy image on the SuSE Linux sparc CDs. I got the answer on the sparc list that there was a initrd64 and a vmlinuz64 file on the CD, and I found these files. I do not know, however, how to use these files. I know that they are the initial ramdisk and the kernel, but I haven't tinkered with systems using initial ramdisk before, so I haven't got any clue about how to make floppies from these files, and I haven't been able to find anything in the SDB articles. Can anyone help? Best regards, David List
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I am trying to install SuSE Linux sparc on an UltraSparc I and have asked on the sparc list on how to make boot floppies for this system since it demands a 64-bit kernel on the boot floppy instead on the 32-bit kernel in the floppy image on the SuSE Linux sparc CDs.
I got the answer on the sparc list that there was a initrd64 and a vmlinuz64 file on the CD, and I found these files.
I do not know, however, how to use these files. I know that they are the initial ramdisk and the kernel, but I haven't tinkered with systems using initial ramdisk before, so I haven't got any clue about how to make floppies from these files, and I haven't been able to find anything in the SDB articles.
Can anyone help?
I'm not sure, if there's a similar feature for 64bit Sparcs, but the intelbased cd's have a tool to create a boot-disk in /dosutils. Hope that might help :-) CU Guido
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, David List wrote:
I am trying to install SuSE Linux sparc on an UltraSparc I and have asked on the sparc list on how to make boot floppies for this system since it demands a 64-bit kernel on the boot floppy instead on the 32-bit kernel in the floppy image on the SuSE Linux sparc CDs.
I got the answer on the sparc list that there was a initrd64 and a vmlinuz64 file on the CD, and I found these files.
I do not know, however, how to use these files. I know that they are the initial ramdisk and the kernel, but I haven't tinkered with systems using initial ramdisk before, so I haven't got any clue about how to make floppies from these files, and I haven't been able to find anything in the SDB articles.
Can anyone help?
Never mind, I just found out that the reason that I could not boot on the CD in the first place was that the CD-ROM drive was too old to read CD-R media. I tried with another drive, and now I have SuSE Linux installed on the UltraSparc. Best regards, David List
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