From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 11 4: 8:56 2002 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 7FF2A37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 04:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530ED43EAA for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 04:08:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9BB8YFu012083; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:08:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9BB8YZ1012082; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:08:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:08:34 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting UFS2 on alpha (was: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/common ufsread.c) Message-ID: <20021011130834.A12041@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20021010210124.GV17920@cicely8.cicely.de> <14845.1034332326@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021011104520.GY17920@cicely8.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021011104520.GY17920@cicely8.cicely.de>; from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de on Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:45:20PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:45:20PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 12:32:06PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <20021010210124.GV17920@cicely8.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes: > > > > >>>>boot dka400 > > >(boot dka400.4.0.6.0 -flags 0) > > >block 0 of dka400.4.0.6.0 is not a valid boot block > > >bootstrap failure > > > > > >This one is my biggest problem. > > >SRM doesn't accept the disklabel. > > >Once I dd the first 512 bytes from an old disk SRM is happy. > > >I compared them with hexdump, but wasn't able to find the reason. > > > > Is there some place which documents what the requirements for being > > a valid boot-block is ? > > None that I know about. > Maybe someone else on the alpha list knows? I'll try to find out. Might take a while. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message