Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:17:28 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386 Message-ID: <20070716191727.GA10053@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <469B8AE1.15664.F3753@lausts.acm.org> References: <469B48F8.28247.E00D79@lausts.acm.org> <469B8AE1.15664.F3753@lausts.acm.org>
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:12:33PM -0400, Thomas Laus wrote.. > Date sent: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:18:04 +0200 > From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> > Subject: Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386 > To: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> > Copies to: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > > > Did you run setcdboot on the ISO before burning it on CD? If you don't > > it won't be bootable. > > > > Can't comment on how well X-building works in x86, I always built natively > > on Alpha. > > > I had to hunt for that program, `setcdboot'. It was in /ports/sysutils. I > built the utility and made a new .iso. One of the parameters that setcdboot > requires is the < boot path> as well as the name of my new .iso. I tried the > root directory `/' as the boot path and DKA400 was at least accessed, but > then the I got a `boot failure'. Should the I set the boot path to > `/boot/cdboot' or something else. When using this utility is it still yes, 'setcdboot myiso.iso /boot/cdboot' > necessary to have `mkisofs' write boot blocks to the .iso or is it only > required that I use `setcdboot' to make the cd bootable. setcdboot is sufficient. > Alpha's are certainly special in a lot of ways. You tell me ;-) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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