# Silo-&silo-version;

The Silo package contains the Sparc Improved boot LOader.

## Installation of Silo

The following patch fixes compile issues:

    patch -Np1 -i ../&silo-fixes-patch;

Compile the Silo package:

    make

Install the package:

    make install

## Contents of Silo

Installed programs
- silo, silocheck, maketile, and tilo.

Short Descriptions

`silo`

- Silo bootloader installer. This program installs the first stage into the bootblock.

`silocheck`

- Checks to see whether a file is readable by silo (very handy if you have larger disks).

`maketilo`

- Is a file that is called by the tilo command to build a TFTP boot image.

`tilo`

- 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.