From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 24 14:44:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zruty.comnets.rwth-aachen.de (zruty.comnets.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.4.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659801126B for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:44:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from kirk.comnets.rwth-aachen.de (kirk [137.226.4.246]) by zruty.comnets.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA00376; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:04:39 +0100 (MET) Received: (ost@localhost) by kirk.comnets.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.12/COMNETS-1.0) id KAA21366; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:04:39 +0100 To: Doug Rabson Cc: Khaled Daham , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootable CD References: Reply-To: Martin Ostermann x-no-archive: yes From: Martin Ostermann Date: 24 Feb 1999 10:04:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:03:07 +0000 (GMT)" Message-ID: <43iucsqijc.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:03:07 +0000 (GMT), Doug Rabson said: >> 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 ? [..] > I think NetBSD has some code for making bootable cds for alphas but I > don't have the source tree handy right now... There's also isomarkboot in the aboot package of Linux/Alpha. I once got it compiled and used on FreeBSD/x86, though it needed some patches, because it wasn't 32 bit clean, but assumed sizeof(long) == 8. If my patches didn't make into the source yet, you should be able find them in the axp-list archive at RedHat (sometimes around summer '96, I believe). HTH, Martin -- Martin Ostermann | mailto:ost+sig0@comnets.rwth-aachen.de Communication Networks | http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~ost Aachen University of Technology | phone: ++49/241/807917 Germany | fax: ++49/241/8890378 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message