10.63. Silo-1.4.14

The Silo package contains the Sparc Improved boot LOader.

10.63.1. Installation de Silo

The following patch fixes compile issues:

patch -Np1 -i ../silo-1.4.14-fixes-3.patch

Compile the Silo package:

make

Installez le paquet :

make install

10.63.2. Contents of Silo

Programmes installés: silo, silocheck, maketile, and tilo.

Short Descriptions

silo

Silo bootloader installer. This program installs the first stage into the bootblock.

silocheck

Checks to see whether a file is readable by silo (very handy if you have larger disks).

maketilo

Is a file that is called by the tilo command to build a TFTP boot image.

tilo

Tilo is a tool for building a simple TFTP boot loader which embodies several kernel images for different Sun architectures and a ramdisk root image.