On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:22, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:59:42PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > The next problem is that the boot loader doesn't appear to be lilo or > > grub > > I do not know for the cube, but for the raq3 o raq4 it's the firmware > which replaces the bios that boots the kernel by reading the ext2 > filesystem (the kernel is in a strange place which in this moment I do not > remember, but by reading the archive of cobalt's mailing lists one sees > it). Raq's firmware contains also a backup kernel which cam be booted by > certains operations (which I do not remenber, but ...) on the buttons on > the front panel.
Thanks for that info! I had noticed that copying to a new disk by "cp -a" seemed to result in the new disk being bootable. > And software updates by Sun/Cobalt have big, big latency times ... > So I understand why someone wants to replace Cobalt software with > Debian. If you're planning to buy more than 10,000 of them then the latency is much more reasonable... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
