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October 2011

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OpenBOOT builds?
by Nathan Kunkee Oct. 23, 2011

Oct. 23, 2011

Hi all, I've checked out the Sun OpenBOOT code they provided, and gotten a little lost. I was curious if anyone else has reviewed or built the firmware? I've found the two key Makefiles: ./obp/arch/sun4v/ontario/release/Makefile ./tools/Makefile I figured out that a 'make' from the latter works on building the tools for constructing the firmware, while the former uses them to build a firmware image. I've gotten stuck trying to build this since it causes a SIGSEGV in libc on my Ultra60. Would anyone else be interested if I start trying to patch it to have debug symbols and use gcc as well as Oracle Solaris Studio (SUNWpro)? Nathan

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How to check if it's a PReP partition
by Paulo Flabiano Smorigo Oct. 21, 2011

Oct. 21, 2011

Hi, How can I know if a partition is securely a PReP partition? Besides check the partition type (41), is there another test that I can do to confirm that? At the page bellow are two other codes used for the same code of PReP (41): http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html 41 Linux/MINIX (sharing disk with DRDOS) 41 Personal RISC Boot 41 PPC PReP (Power PC Reference Platform) Boot What kind of checks can I do? Can I use the partition size or if it's the first of the disk as parameters to check it? Thanks, Paulo Flabiano Smorigo Linux Technology Center Brazil Software Engineer IBM Systems & Technology Group

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