From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 12:54:26 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 DF9E516A4CE; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:54:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-out1.xs4all.nl (smtp-out1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E1C43D6A; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:54:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-out1.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i15Je3ke048895; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:40:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i15Je2vE072588; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:40:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i15Je2sF072587; Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:40:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:40:02 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20040205194002.GA72501@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200402041106.28569.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200402041401.41328.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040205182639.GA72007@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200402051429.37369.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402051429.37369.jhb@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 20:54:27 -0000 On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:29:37PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > 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', Well.. no. And that is because on my DS10 the floppy does not work at all. ds10#fdformat fd0 fdformat: open(fd0): No such file or directory While: fdc0: at port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6 See also alpha/30486 for an older PR. I don't recall we ever managed to fix it. Looks specific to EV6/Tsunami machines. > 'newfs -O1 /dev/fd0' and see if it will at least boot up and say that it > can't find a loader? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org