Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:28:09 -0500 From: Jim King <king@sstar.com> To: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>, peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha vs i386 filesystems Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991022072631.01708a80@mail.sstar.com> In-Reply-To: <19991022101406.C78625@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <99Oct22.071920est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au> <99Oct22.071920est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au>
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At 10:14 AM 10/22/1999 +0100, Geoff Buckingham wrote: >On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:23:50AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > Has anyone ever tried building an Alpha boot disk (SCSI HD) on an i386 > > box? > > > > I presume the partition tables and UFS formats are identical, so the > > approach would be: > > - add disk to i386 system as `dangerously dedicated' (ie no slice table) > > - partition disk normally > > - install Alpha bootloaders with `disklabel -B', explicitly specifying > > the boot1 and boot2 from the Alpha release. > > - newfs partitions as wanted and copy Alpha release files into them. > > - move disk from i386 to Alpha and boot it. > > > > [I'm looking at this approach because I can't get netboot to work. > > I intend to write a separate missive, probably in -current, about > > my experiences trying to cross-compile netboot]. > >I had trouble booting from floppies to install on the alpha and eventually >dd'd the 2.88MB boot.flp floppy image onto a scsi disk in a PC and then >transfered this to the alpha and installed from that. So the process >you describe above should work, but isn't required. I did something similar: I dd'ed the 2.88 MB boot.flp image onto a Zip disk and booted my Alpha from a SCSI Zip drive. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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