Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 23:10:05 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Matt Hamilton <matt@clintondale.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing bootblocks... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809252307420.845-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980925113423.14052A-100000@boris.clintondale.com>
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On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Matt Hamilton wrote: > Dear All, > Forgive my ignorance, as I haven't even tried -current on my Alpha yet > (UDB -still not supported right?), but where do bootblocks fit into the > Alpha boot process? I thought you just typed: boot blah/kernel into SRM > and it would boot the kernel? I guess I must be wrong, so where do the > bootblocks fit in? Does the boot command in SRM call the secondary boot > code in the bootblocks and then that calls the kernel? > > confused in NY I fixed the axppci33 support a few days ago (which should include UDB). I'll probably put up some more kernels tomorrow for testing. The boot blocks are necessary because SRM only knows how to load a single contiguous region of the disk. To load a kernel from a real filesystem, you need to get SRM to load a bootstrap which contains a UFS reader to read the kernel. -- 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
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