From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 14:36:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1573616A4CF for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:36:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B61B43D53 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:35:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 32123 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2004 22:35:57 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 2 Feb 2004 22:35:57 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i12MZYM8096425; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:35:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Rob B , Wilko Bulte Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:20:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401301524.58864.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040131195051.GA41087@freebie.xs4all.nl> <6.0.2.0.2.20040201121501.02471dd0@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <6.0.2.0.2.20040201121501.02471dd0@127.0.0.1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402021720.51049.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot Floppies for 5.x up for testing.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:36:00 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org