From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 16 19:12:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E93C16A400 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:12:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lausts@acm.org) Received: from ms-smtp-03.ohiordc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.ohiordc.rr.com [65.24.5.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C58F13C4A8 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:12:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lausts@acm.org) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (cpe-71-79-254-61.woh.res.rr.com [71.79.254.61]) by ms-smtp-03.ohiordc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6GJCXXk006262 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:12:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "Thomas Laus" Organization: ABB To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:12:33 -0400 Message-ID: <469B8AE1.15664.F3753@lausts.acm.org> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20070716151804.GA8713@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <469B48F8.28247.E00D79@lausts.acm.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.31) X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lausts@acm.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:12:37 -0000 Date sent: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:18:04 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386 To: Thomas Laus Copies to: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > Did you run setcdboot on the ISO before burning it on CD? If you don't > it won't be bootable. > > Can't comment on how well X-building works in x86, I always built natively > on Alpha. > I had to hunt for that program, `setcdboot'. It was in /ports/sysutils. I built the utility and made a new .iso. One of the parameters that setcdboot requires is the < boot path> as well as the name of my new .iso. I tried the root directory `/' as the boot path and DKA400 was at least accessed, but then the I got a `boot failure'. Should the I set the boot path to `/boot/cdboot' or something else. When using this utility is it still necessary to have `mkisofs' write boot blocks to the .iso or is it only required that I use `setcdboot' to make the cd bootable. Alpha's are certainly special in a lot of ways. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF