Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:29:37 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch for floppies Message-ID: <200402051429.37369.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040205182639.GA72007@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200402041106.28569.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200402041401.41328.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040205182639.GA72007@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:26 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:01:41PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 01:52 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:06:28AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > Ok, since the cross-built floppies don't work for whatever reason, > > > > someone is going to need to build a native alpha release and then > > > > post those floppies for testing (or test them themselves). I > > > > currently don't have an alpha setup such that I can do this, so I'm > > > > posting the patch to do so. It's quite simple and is at > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.floppies.patch > > > > > > I will have a go at it. Be patient.. > > Freshly generated from HEAD: > >>>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 > > > hmm. Can bsdlabel generate a bootable floppy image at all on Alpha? I.e., can you do something like 'fdformat fd0', 'bsdlabel /dev/fd0 fd1440', 'newfs -O1 /dev/fd0' and see if it will at least boot up and say that it can't find a loader? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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