Re: [IPCop-devel] SVN Rev 1803

[Olaf W. <wei...@ip...>]

Héctor S. Mendoza Ortiz wrote:

> I think where the problem of silo resides, when you call my_partition_create
> for the boot partition, you use 1 as start sector, because when you call
> my_partition_create for creating the partition it calls ped_partition_new
> which takes start and end as sectors not as MB, with this in mind we are not
> leaving any space for silo to install, when I was able to finally boot with
> ipcop, I created the partition table manually using MB (script created when
> booting install_parted), and the first partition (boot partition)
> /usr/bin/parted -s /dev/hda mkpart primary ext2 1 32 wich means that if we
> called my_partition_create should be not (1,XXX, but (pedsector_start,XXX am
> I right in my appreciation?

So far we use start_partition and pedsector_start for PPC only, since 
that needs an extra partition in front of /boot.

IIRC starting with 1 is sufficient for grub (only 1 sector needed), but 
if more space is needed for silo we can happily allocate 1 MB and grab 
from /boot

Following should do that:

     /* boot partition */
     if (my_partition_create(pedsector_start, pedsector_boot, "ext2", 
"boot", 1) != SUCCESS)
         goto PARTITION_EXIT;


> BTW, I'm running low on CD's and budget (my boss asked already why are you
> burning so many cd's), and created a script to create tftp images (boot
> net), would it be possible to incorporate it into the builds, so I don't
> have to do it manually every time I recompile? The script is attached. Btw,
> when using my tfp image I chose http as install option and dhcp
> configuration of the cards is not working I had to configure IP manually. I
> will report on the dhcp issue also on Monday.

I usually burn CD-RWs, don't know if your sparc cdrom is happy with one 
of those?
For tftp, I would prefer to make a lfs/tftp like we have lfs/pxe (or 
bundle those into one) and fully integrate it into the build (sparc 
specific).

That leaves the where piggyback64 comes from? Is that part of 
sparc-utils as elftoaout?
Or is that something we would need to at?


cheers Olaf

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