Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:48:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: creating bootable cd for alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002140947070.298-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000213094958.E91242@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:39:29PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > What I'm looking is the right magical commands to make such a cd. I assume > > Alpha uses a bootable ufs cd instead of RockRidge. > > Not quite -- RockRidge is still useful (especially for Disc 2). Rather > you do not specify a boot image as you would on the i386. > > When I hacked `make release' to support cdbooting on the Alpha, I maked > my ISO images by: > > mkisofs -v -a -o alpha-boot.iso -r -d -T /release/R/cdrom/disc1 > mkisofs -v -a -o alpha-liveFS.iso -r -d -T /release/R/cdrom/disc2 > > setcdboot alpha-boot.iso /boot/cdboot > setcdboot alpha-liveFS.iso /boot/cdboot > > [ `setcdboot' is in ports/sysutils/setcdboot, and has only been tested on > the Alpha. If anybody has tried doing the `setcdboot' step on an i386 > box I would be interested to hear about it. ] I believe setcdboot should work when run on an i386 (the resulting image being bootable on an alpha of course). I used it on an i386 several times while working on the cd boot support. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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