Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:20:51 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Rob B <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Floppies for 5.x up for testing.. Message-ID: <200402021720.51049.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.2.0.2.20040201121501.02471dd0@127.0.0.1> References: <200401301524.58864.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040131195051.GA41087@freebie.xs4all.nl> <6.0.2.0.2.20040201121501.02471dd0@127.0.0.1>
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On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:16 pm, Rob B wrote: > At 06:50 AM 1/02/2004, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:36:54AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:24:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > Using the new splitfs stuff, I've built a set of Alpha boot > > > > floppies. Note > > > > > > that there is no fixit floppy, just the actual boot floppies. If > > > > someone > > > > > > will test that these work ok then I will commit the changes. Alpha > > > > now requires 4 floppies: 1 boot, 2 for kernel, and 1 for the > > > > mfsroot. The floppy > > > > > > images are at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/floppies/alpha/ > > > >I assume I have to start with boot.flp? > > > >That gives: > > > >Digital AlphaStation 500/266 > >Console V7.2-2 Apr 4 2000 17:17:43 > > > > >>>boot dva0 > > > >(boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags a) > >block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is not a valid boot block > >bootstrap failure > > Ditto here on PC64. Actually, none of the floppies after 5.0-RELEASE have > booted on this box Perhaps a cross-release doesn't build valid boot floppies. I can post a patch later that someone can use to build a native release and see if it gives bootable floppies. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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