Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:03:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Khaled Daham <khaled@mailbox.telia.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootable CD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902232100410.60339-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990223152535.11851F-100000@mailbox.telia.net>
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Khaled Daham wrote: > Hi! > > I ws just wondering if there is a special tweak to make a bootable CD > for alpha. Ive done so for i386, and repeating that procedure didnt work > on my alpha, SRM didnt think the CD had a valid bootblock.So has anyone > tried ? > > the line I used was > mkisofs -o /mnt2/fbsdaxp.iso -b floppies/boot.flp -c boot.catalog -r -T -p > FreeBSD -P www.freebsd.org -A FreeBSD_3_1_Alpha -V FBSD31 [dir] I'm not exactly sure how SRM wants a bootable CD arranged but I suspect that its the same as a bootable disk - the bootstrap needs to be in a contiguous region and the first disk block has two fields with the block address and size of the bootstrap. I think NetBSD has some code for making bootable cds for alphas but I don't have the source tree handy right now... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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