Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:12:33 -0400 From: "Thomas Laus" <lausts@acm.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386 Message-ID: <469B8AE1.15664.F3753@lausts.acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20070716151804.GA8713@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <469B48F8.28247.E00D79@lausts.acm.org>
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Date sent: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:18:04 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386 To: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> Copies to: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > Did you run setcdboot on the ISO before burning it on CD? If you don't > it won't be bootable. > > Can't comment on how well X-building works in x86, I always built natively > on Alpha. > I had to hunt for that program, `setcdboot'. It was in /ports/sysutils. I built the utility and made a new .iso. One of the parameters that setcdboot requires is the < boot path> as well as the name of my new .iso. I tried the root directory `/' as the boot path and DKA400 was at least accessed, but then the I got a `boot failure'. Should the I set the boot path to `/boot/cdboot' or something else. When using this utility is it still necessary to have `mkisofs' write boot blocks to the .iso or is it only required that I use `setcdboot' to make the cd bootable. Alpha's are certainly special in a lot of ways. Tom -- Public Keys: PGP KeyID = 0x5F22FDC1 GnuPG KeyID = 0x620836CF
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