From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 11:30:45 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 0925F16A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:30:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274FE43D1F for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:30:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 1064 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2004 19:29:01 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Feb 2004 19:29:01 -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 i15JSXMC014155; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:28:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Wilko Bulte Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:29:37 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200402041106.28569.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200402041401.41328.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040205182639.GA72007@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040205182639.GA72007@freebie.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402051429.37369.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch for floppies 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: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:30:45 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org