From d1e063beb43e595680c65e3804d1f8ddff53373b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido Guenther Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:48:07 +0100 Subject: Imported Debian version 0.3.8.8 --- debian/tip32.8 | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 debian/tip32.8 (limited to 'debian/tip32.8') diff --git a/debian/tip32.8 b/debian/tip32.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c3916b --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/tip32.8 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.TH "TIP32" "8" "17 November 2004" "" "" +.SH NAME +tip32 \- create "piggyback" style boot images for SGI/MIPS IP32 machines +.SH SYNOPSIS + +\fB/usr/sbin/tip32\fR + +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +\fBtip32\fR is used on SGI/MIPS IP32 machines (SGI O2) to embed kernel and +initial ramdisk into one ELF image which can then be booted by the ARCS PROM. +This is usually used to create tftp boot images. +.SH "USAGE" +.PP + is the ELF kernel you want to embed into the bootimage +.P + is the (optionally gzip compressed) initial ramdisk +.P + is the resulting tftpboot image + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP +arcboot(8). +.SH "AUTHORS" +Tip32 is an adaption of tip22, which is the equivalent for SGI IP22 machines. +Tip22 was written by Guido Günther and borrows heavily +from arcboot written by Ralf Bächle and Guido Günther. -- cgit v1.2.3