creating firmware CD

From: Markus Waldorf <waldorfm_at_rferl.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:45:53 +0100

So far I received a reply pointing me to:

h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/best_practices/BP_CONSFWCD/TITLE.HTM

This "Best Practice" document explains how to build a consolidated
firmware CD under Tru64 5.1. Apparently such a question was already
answered in the archives, but my search did not return the summary.

Below are my results: It does not seem to work, so far.

mkisofs -D -R -a -d -o /var/spare/consFWos.cdfs /cdimage returned:
mkisofs: option `-a' is ambiguous.
So I entered the command without -a (5.1A ?).

I ran into a problem that there was not enough space left, so I deleted
the DOCUMENTATION and ALPHA directories on /cdimage, which copied from
os_copy - I don't think I need documentation and system install
packages for updating the firmware. Why it cannot be a CD without the
OS, like the original FW CD?

The trick in order to create the bootstrap on the CD seems to be:

# disklabel -r -w -t cdfs -f /var/spare/consFWos.cdfs \
   /cdimage/mdec/xxboot.cdfs /cdimage/mdec/bootxx.cdfs

In order to burn the CD I ftp'd the CD image to my desktop computer
(Mac OSX). I can mount it with the default disk utility, although
burning the CD image unmounted. I burned the CD at 4-speed, which
worked fine when imaging the original 6.4 FW CD and burning it.

However, when I boot the self-made CD it goes into:

block 0 of dka500.5.0.2000.1 is not a valid boot block
bootstrap failure

Any more ideas please?
Received on Mon Jan 26 2004 - 17:46:59 NZDT

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