From: Markus Waldorf (waldorfm@rferl.org)
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 12:45:53 EST
So far I received a reply pointing me to:
h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/best_practices/BP_CONSFWCD/TITLE.HTM
This "Best Practice" document explains how to build a consolidated
firmware CD under Tru64 5.1. Apparently such a question was already
answered in the archives, but my search did not return the summary.
Below are my results: It does not seem to work, so far.
mkisofs -D -R -a -d -o /var/spare/consFWos.cdfs /cdimage returned:
mkisofs: option `-a' is ambiguous.
So I entered the command without -a (5.1A ?).
I ran into a problem that there was not enough space left, so I deleted
the DOCUMENTATION and ALPHA directories on /cdimage, which copied from
os_copy - I don't think I need documentation and system install
packages for updating the firmware. Why it cannot be a CD without the
OS, like the original FW CD?
The trick in order to create the bootstrap on the CD seems to be:
# disklabel -r -w -t cdfs -f /var/spare/consFWos.cdfs \
/cdimage/mdec/xxboot.cdfs /cdimage/mdec/bootxx.cdfs
In order to burn the CD I ftp'd the CD image to my desktop computer
(Mac OSX). I can mount it with the default disk utility, although
burning the CD image unmounted. I burned the CD at 4-speed, which
worked fine when imaging the original 6.4 FW CD and burning it.
However, when I boot the self-made CD it goes into:
block 0 of dka500.5.0.2000.1 is not a valid boot block
bootstrap failure
Any more ideas please?
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