From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 22 5:28:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from sstar.com (sstar.com [209.102.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0687014BE9 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 05:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from MAROON ([134.132.228.8]) by sstar.com with ESMTP (IPAD 2.5s/64) id 2434800; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:28:09 -0500 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991022072631.01708a80@mail.sstar.com> X-Sender: king@mail.sstar.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:28:09 -0500 To: Geoff Buckingham , peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au From: Jim King Subject: Re: Alpha vs i386 filesystems Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19991022101406.C78625@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <99Oct22.071920est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au> <99Oct22.071920est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:14 AM 10/22/1999 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: >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. I did something similar: I dd'ed the 2.88 MB boot.flp image onto a Zip disk and booted my Alpha from a SCSI Zip drive. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message