Could someone please give me a tar ball of ON sources which have successfully compiled and booted off on an i386 machine? I will be really grateful if it could be made available at an ftp location. My compilations so far have not yielded a successful boot. Regards. Bhaskar. This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Bhaskar Jayaraman wrote:> Could someone please give me a tar ball of ON sources which have successfully compiled and booted off on an i386 machine? I will be really grateful if it could be made available at an ftp location. My compilations so far have not yielded a successful boot. > Regards. > Bhaskar.Hmm, the compile alone doesn''t get you a successful boot. The more complicated step there actually is the install/update of your system with the binaries created in the compile step. Hence the questions: - What did you try to compile, which sources and toolset did you start with ? - Did your compile actually fail ? If so: * How did you "compile" - describe steps please * Where exactly did it fail, and with what message(s) ? - How did you install the generated binaries ? * Any (error) messages when doing so ? - What behaviour do you get during boot (messages if any) ? Thx, FrankH.> > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No good can come from selling your freedom, not for all the gold in the world, for the value of this heavenly gift far exceeds that of any fortune on earth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Did you already try the following site ? http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/ They always worked for me. -surya Bhaskar Jayaraman wrote On 11/27/07 16:05,:>Could someone please give me a tar ball of ON sources which have successfully compiled and booted off on an i386 machine? I will be really grateful if it could be made available at an ftp location. My compilations so far have not yielded a successful boot. >Regards. >Bhaskar. > > >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >xen-discuss mailing list >xen-discuss@opensolaris.org > >
That''d be the equivalent of a BFU, available with the sources. You basically generate cpio packages for BFUing as the last step of the build process. James On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:35 AM, Bhaskar Jayaraman wrote:> Could someone please give me a tar ball of ON sources which have > successfully compiled and booted off on an i386 machine? I will be > really grateful if it could be made available at an ftp location. My > compilations so far have not yielded a successful boot. > Regards. > Bhaskar. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
On Tue 11/27/07 at 02:35 AM, bhaskar.jayaraman@lsi.com wrote:> Could someone please give me a tar ball of ON sources which have > successfully compiled and booted off on an i386 machine? I will be really > grateful if it could be made available at an ftp location. My > compilations so far have not yielded a successful boot.Have you read and followed the developer instructions: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/devref_toc/ Several of your previous messages suggested that you were trying to power through the build process manually. Building Solaris is a bit more complicated than the typical "configure; make", and you really need to follow the proper steps to generate a working build. Nils