From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 25 3:45: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3839814D5A for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 03:45:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khaled@mailbox.telia.net) Received: from mailbox.telia.net (khaled@mailbox.telia.net [194.237.170.234]) by mailb.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23523; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:29:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (khaled@localhost) by mailbox.telia.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA26750; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:29:47 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:29:47 +0100 (CET) From: Khaled Daham To: Martin Ostermann Cc: Doug Rabson , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootable CD In-Reply-To: <43iucsqijc.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ive stumlbed upon a text file whom the guy making mkisofs wrote , he stated that scsi-cdrom-drives was not aware of "El Torrito", and I have a scsi cdrom-drive so that maybe is the problem.. On 24 Feb 1999, Martin Ostermann wrote: > 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 > /Khaled, Telia Network Services Mail: khaled@telia.net Cell: 070-6785492 Work: 08-4567281 :hacker: /n./ [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message