NAME¶

tilo - Trivial Image LOader

SYNOPSIS¶

tilo [-o output] <elf kernel images> <root image>

DESCRIPTION¶

tilo is a tool for building a simple TFTP boot loader which embodies several kernel images for different Sun architectures and a ramdisk root image. To minimize memory usage, the images are gzipped. After starting the boot loader, the architecture is detected, the appropriate kernel is unpacked and then the booting procedure is launched.

OPTIONS¶

<elf kernel images>

A list of either a single sun4cdm or sun4u image, or one of each.

<root image>

the initial ramdisk image to append to the kernel image. It could be compressed as well

<-o output>

The name of the output file to write the TILO image to. If not specified, it will be tftpboot.img.

A boot image will be created which contains everything necessary to boot on each architecture.

NOTE¶

maketilo is an internal command used by the tilo script. There is no need to use it directly.

AUTHOR¶

tilo has been written by Jan Vondrak <jvon4518@barbora.mff.cuni.cz> and is now maintained by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>.

AVAILABILITY¶

tilo is available with the SILO package from http://www.sparc-boot.org/.