From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 2 03:03:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA20556 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 03:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA20549 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 03:03:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA03057; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:45:37 GMT Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 10:45:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yes! In-Reply-To: <199811020142.RAA07159@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > * Assuming only one ``slice'' exists in which to install FreeBSD > > partitions, how does one create a device with say, 20 filesystems? > > No, this is not a DPT (yet again :-) question, although it could easily > > be one. > > You can't do it inside sysinstall. You can probably build/run fdisk > and divvy up a non-boot disk into slices, and then put labels on the > slices. The SRM console won't boot from a disk with a "normal" MBR on > it (I don't think you could come up with a merged block 0 format but I > could be wrong). Unfortunately the DOS partition table sits right on top of the SRM bootstrap location. I thought of that a while ago :-) > > > * Who is responsible for the fix which will make the boot disk bootable? > > If I am, then where is the best place to stick this code (thanks Doug!)? > > We need to work out what's going wrong first; newfs'ing the disk seems > to render it unbootable. 8( That is a useful data point. I should be able to fix this without too much trouble. > > > * Upon reboot, I saw the repeated message ``,kernel.old not found'', or > > some such. Is this an artifact of installworld, or what? > > It was a bug in /boot/loader; Doug fixed it. > > > * It seems like this machine here has sound interfaces. Does anyone know > > how to make them work? > > They're probably WSS-compatible. Port the new ISA sound system to the > new ISA bus interface. I understand that DMA on the ISA Alpha's is > interesting (hence no floppy support). The dma isn't too hard. I haven't supported isa dma more due to lack of time rather than technical difficulty. I expect I'll work on the floppy support soonish. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message