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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/
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