Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 23:45:24 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems creating 4.4-alpha test/release cdrom Message-ID: <20010805234524.A22659@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010806071419.D506@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:14:19AM %2B1000 References: <20010805190055.A21399@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010806071419.D506@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:14:19AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2001-Aug-05 19:00:55 +0200, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote: > >I seem to be having an interesting problem creating a CD that is bootable > >on Alpha. I built a release (too a while on the PWS600au but it got there). > >Then created an .iso using the /usr/share/examples/worm/makecdfs.sh > >Subsequently ran setcdboot to make it bootable. Ran cdrecord and wrote the > >whole thing on CDRW. All mkisofs, setcdboot, cdrecord, done on the PWS > >itself. > > > >On trying to boot I get the phenomenon listed below: ALL CAPS filenames. > >mkisofs is version 1.14, freshly built from ports. Mounting the CD under > >FreeBSD produces lower case filenames like we are used to. > > All this means is that the bootloader doesn't understand the RockRidge > extensions to ISO9660. The ISO9660 standard only supports monocase > filenames containing a single '.' and a version number (similar to > VMS). It should, however, understand that a request for "kernel" is I know that iso9660 is limited this way. But why-o-why did the makecdfs.sh work before and does not anymore? > matched by the file "KERNEL" that it reports - I suspect that there's > a strcmp() that should be strcasecmp() somewhere in the bootloader. In the meantime I also tried the mkisofs on an x86 machine, using the same input directory tree mounted via NFS. setcdboot on the alpha and a new cdrw gave me exactly the same results. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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