Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 16:25:38 -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: <200402051625.38695.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040205194002.GA72501@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200402041106.28569.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200402051429.37369.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040205194002.GA72501@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Thursday 05 February 2004 02:40 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> 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. You have to add a hint for fd.0 I think. GENERIC.hints in current should have the hint listed that you would need to add your /boot/device.hints to bring your fd0 back. -- 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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