[comp.os.v] using vload to boot vmunix

cdash@BOULDER.COLORADO.EDU (Charles Shub) (04/07/89)

we want to be able to boot our sun clients over the net with either
unix or V (to be determined by a miraculous incantation at boot time)

got any hints for the student who needs to do this by the end of the month?

thanks...

charlie shub  cdash@boulder.Colorado.EDU  -or-  ..!{ncar|nbires}!boulder!cdash
  or even     cdash@colospgs (BITNET)

pallas@PESCADERO.STANFORD.EDU (Joseph I. Pallas) (04/07/89)

There are two ways you can do this.  The simplest one is to use the boot
spec to explicitly name a host (e.g., b le(,80088) ) from which to boot,
and have some hosts serve up Vload and others the Sun bootstrap.  The
other way is to build a version of Vload with a Sun a.out header (there
are examples in the Vload buildfile, I believe -- look for *.boot) and
load it with the Sun "boot" program (name it V).  Both of these have been
done here.

joe