Hi All-
This is a somewhat obscure question; however, here goes:
I have been able in the past (as recent as 4.0C) to create
a netbootable kernel for RIS installs by taking the vmunix
off of the cdrom and applying the sections of /usr/sbin/doconfig
to it that relate to netbootable kernels. I was in the process
of setting up a 4.0D installation, but it will not boot! It
gets to the point where it is starting up and then bombs out
kernel panic (memory access error); whereas the 4.0C kernel
(this is a DPW) will boot the machine just fine.
Is there any one familiar with RIS installations of the OS?
The online documentation is a bit sketchy about this. And
also, the ris seems to really bugger up the add client under
4.0B (the RIS server is a AS500/266 running DU4.0B patch 4)
it never asks for the hardware ethernet address. Also, the
ris installation of the 4.0D subsets doesn't give you all of
the seemingly requisite symlinks and does not include the isl
directory among others. Since we share one media set among
all of the CSLG folks on campus, this is a necessity for
emergency recovers, and I'd like to get it to work under 4.0D.
Thanks so much,
Sean
PS. My mkneboot script is essentially:
#-------------------------------------------------------#
# Create the network bootable version of the vmunix
#-------------------------------------------------------#
TMPKERNEL=${KERNEL}.$$
$PMERGE $SBOOT $RISDIR/${KERNEL} $RISDIR/${TMPKERNEL} >$NULL
#-------------------------------------------------------#
# The following code will add a 1k pad to the end of the
# newly created image to workaround a console problem.
#-------------------------------------------------------#
dd if=$RISDIR/${TMPKERNEL} of=$PADDER bs=1k count=1 skip=5 >$NULL 2>$NULL
cat $RISDIR/${TMPKERNEL} $PADDER > $RISDIR/${KERNEL}.pad
mv $RISDIR/${KERNEL}.pad $RISDIR/vmunix
rm /tmp/PaDdInG $RISDIR/${TMPKERNEL}
where PMERGE/SBOOT are the one off of the 4.0D cdrom.
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Sean O'Connell Email: sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences Phone: (919) 684-5419
Duke University Fax: (919) 684-8594
Received on Thu Mar 26 1998 - 17:23:32 NZST