Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:14:06 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha vs i386 filesystems Message-ID: <19991022101406.C78625@chuggalug.clues.com> In-Reply-To: <99Oct22.071920est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:23:50AM %2B1000 References: <99Oct22.071920est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:23:50AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Has anyone ever tried building an Alpha boot disk (SCSI HD) on an i386 > box? > > I presume the partition tables and UFS formats are identical, so the > approach would be: > - add disk to i386 system as `dangerously dedicated' (ie no slice table) > - partition disk normally > - install Alpha bootloaders with `disklabel -B', explicitly specifying > the boot1 and boot2 from the Alpha release. > - newfs partitions as wanted and copy Alpha release files into them. > - move disk from i386 to Alpha and boot it. > > [I'm looking at this approach because I can't get netboot to work. > I intend to write a separate missive, probably in -current, about > my experiences trying to cross-compile netboot]. I had trouble booting from floppies to install on the alpha and eventually dd'd the 2.88MB boot.flp floppy image onto a scsi disk in a PC and then transfered this to the alpha and installed from that. So the process you describe above should work, but isn't required. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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