Re: jumpstarting x86

From: Juergen Keil (jk_at_tools.de)
Date: 11/19/03


Date: 19 Nov 2003 13:10:35 +0100

gl@arlut.utexas.edu (Jay G. Scott) writes:

> i put together a boot floppy, from a downloaded d1_image. on close
> inspection, it looks like it's missing a number of things, namely
> the solaris/bootenv.rc file, the whole drivers directory, on
> and on.

That doesn't look like a boot floppy. A boot floppy image can be
found on the "Software 2 of 2" CD (in Solaris_9/Tools/d1_image).

> can you tell enough from what i've said already
> to answer that? (bootenv.rc isn't there, the solaris
> dir is empty, but maybe it should be?)

A mounted boot floppy should look like this:

% ls -l /floppy/floppy0/.
total 17
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 436 Okt 3 21:54 append.bat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 2951 Okt 3 21:54 comment.bat
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 151 Okt 3 21:54 ident
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 586 Okt 3 21:54 makedir.bat
drwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 512 Okt 3 21:54 rc.d
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 503 Okt 3 21:54 replace.bat
drwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 1024 Okt 3 21:54 solaris
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 1309 Okt 3 21:54 solaris.map
% ls -l /floppy/floppy0/solaris
total 1229
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 389120 Okt 3 21:54 boot.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 2439 Nov 18 13:56 boot.rc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 83 Okt 3 21:54 bootargs.rc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 185578 Okt 3 21:54 bootconf.exe
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 15454 Okt 3 21:54 bootconf.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 538 Okt 3 21:54 bootenv.rc
drwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 512 Okt 3 21:54 devicedb
drwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 512 Okt 3 21:54 drivers
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 17079 Okt 3 21:54 itup2.exe
drwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 512 Okt 3 21:54 machines
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 14596 Okt 3 21:54 nbp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jk usr 193 Okt 3 21:54 strap.rc



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