NAME¶
arcload - bootloader for SGI/ARCS machines
SYNOPSIS¶
arcload device
DESCRIPTION¶
arcload is a bootloader designed to load any Linux kernel on any SGI/ARCS
machine. It supports booting the kernel from a variety of filesystems;
currently, the following filesystems are supported:
ext2 (
ext3),
fat,
iso9660,
jfs,
minix,
ufs,
xfs
and the
*arcfs pseudo-filesystem.
arcload usually resides in the volume header of a disk with an SGI
disklabel.
USAGE¶
device is the device name of the disk containing the volume header
arcload should go into. To use
arcload you have to modify the
following PROM variables:
setenv OSLoader arcload
setenv SystemPartition dksc(c,d,8)
setenv OSLoadPartition dksc(c,d,p)
setenv OSLoadFilename label(option1,option2,...)
where
c is the ID of the SCSI controller,
d the SCSI ID of the
disk
arcload resides on and
p the partition number of the
partition
arc.cf and the kernels reside on (counting from 0). Note that
arc.cf and the directory your kernels are in (usually / or /boot) have
to be on the same partition. On boot,
arcload looks at the
OSLoadFilename PROM variable and tries to find a label with the same
name in
arc.cf.
arc.cf can reside either in /etc or at the root of the partition pointed
to by the
OSLoadFilename variable.
NOTES¶
arcload only loads ELF kernels.
FILES¶
/arc.cf arcload's configuration file
/usr/share/doc/arcload/examples configuration file examples
/usr/share/doc/arcload/README.Debian some notes about arcload for Debian
SEE ALSO¶
dvhtool(1)
AUTHORS¶
ARCLoad was written by Stanislaw Skowronek <skylark@linux-mips.org>. This
manual page was written by Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org> for the
Debian Project (but may be used by others), based on the
arcboot(8)
manpage.
