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Date:      Sun, 25 Jul 2004 23:40:04 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
Subject:   Re: Announcing snapshots.se.freebsd.org - now with AMD64 snapshots
Message-ID:  <20040725214004.GA63752@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <29864.1090791217@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20040725053409.GY2959@sirius.firepipe.net> <29864.1090791217@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:33:37PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20040725053409.GY2959@sirius.firepipe.net>, Will Andrews writes:
> 
> >The site also builds i386 and alpha snapshots every day.
> >Although I admit I haven't been able to figure out what's wrong
> >with the alpha snaps (they haven't worked since March)...
> 
> I tried to get my alpha live so I could test tty patches on it
> but gave up.  5.2.1-R gave the same error as a snapshot from
> .jp and it looks to me like the machine doesn't even want to
> recognize the CD as bootable.

There is some outstanding issue with the loader on alpha (toolchain
related as I understand it) but that should not keep it from getting
to the 1st stage boot.  

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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