Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:42:15 +1100 From: Rob B <robbyrnes@fastmail.com.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Testers wanted: Floppies round 3 Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20040320153730.022d1958@mail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <200403181445.40822.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200403151650.51877.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <39B99126-7859-11D8-A48C-000A95AFA61E@videotron.ca> <200403171708.44158.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200403181445.40822.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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At 06:45 AM 19/03/2004, John Baldwin wrote: >On Wednesday 17 March 2004 05:08 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 March 2004 04:22 pm, Stephane E. Potvin wrote: > > > On 17-Mar-04, at 10:44 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 07:44 pm, Rob B wrote: > > > >> At 08:50 AM 16/03/2004, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >>> Ok, I think I've fixed the bug in bsdlabel that prevented it from > > > >>> making > > > >>> bootable floppy images for Alpha and I've built a new set of boot > > > >>> floppies > > > >>> via a cross-release. You can find them at > > > >>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/floppies/alpha/ I'd appreciate it if > > > >>> someone > > > >>> could test them to make sure they work ok. Thanks. > > > > Ok, so splitfs doesn't work on Alpha at all. Ah, bah! I know what to fix. > > Thanks for doing this quick test, I should have working floppies in a day > > or two. > >Ok, I've built new floppies that should have splitfs support turned on in the >loader now and have updated the files at the URL above. Thanks for that John, the floppies now boot, but on my Cabriolet sysinstall crashes to the debugger with - [Stopped at softdep_disk_prewrite+0x50: ldl t0,0xd8(t0) <0xd8> <t0=0x0> This happens when I try and select the Distributions as part of a custom install Cheers, Rob -- The charms of a woman are directly related to the speed of her passing. This is random quote 993 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5
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