Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:22:13 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netboot cross-compiled kernel Message-ID: <20030810002213.GA57014@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030809165159.GA26726@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20030809165159.GA26726@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:51:59AM -0600, Greg Lewis wrote: > I grabbed the 4.8 miniiso and unpacked it in a suitable directory and > put in an fstab with just a root NFS mount (for now). After setting up > bootp and tftp the machine does boot, only to have the GENERIC kernel > panic trying to mount root: You'll probably have a much easier time getting started with FreeBSD on Alpha if you're willing to just do a normal disk install. :-) The EB164 is well supported and you should have no problems running FreeBSD on it. > Is there something else I need to do when cross building, or does it not > work in 4.x? I did notice the cross-build compiles code with -mcpu=ev4 > where the CPU identifies during boot as: > > CPU: EV56 (21164A) > > Is this a problem? I.e. should I do the build with -mcpu=ev56? Not a problem. You'll get better performance with -mcpu=ev56, but all Alpha's can run ev4 code. > Its running SRM 4.8, although that seems to be working fine in terms of > the netbooting getting going and I'm loathe to upgrade unless I need to > after having bad experience trying to get SRM working on an LX board. Getting SRM inititally instaled on a machine with AlphaBIOS only can be a PITA -- but upgrading your SRM from SRM is quite straight forward and easy.
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