From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 17 9:55:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.suse.de (Cantor.suse.de [194.112.123.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114B315271 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:55:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stepan@suse.de) Received: from Galois.suse.de (Galois.suse.de [194.112.123.130]) by mail.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A7732CE4; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:55:08 +0100 (MET) Received: by Galois.suse.de (Postfix, from userid 0) id 1160D9410; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:55:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Galois.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for id 1039C7416; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:55:08 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:55:08 +0100 (MET) From: Stefan Reinauer To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: faked BSD disklabel to boot from SRM Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, sorry, I know that this may not be the right place to ask such questions but this list is afaik the only one whose readers may have the knowledge to answer my questions. The Alpha SRM console needs a BSD disklabel in the first block with an offset of 64 and a bootstrap in the following 8k to boot from a disk. Now I have a disk with an MSDOS disklabel from which I want to boot. I thought of having an MSDOS disklabel in the first 512 bytes (it isn't moveable) and a BSD disklabel in block 1 or later, similar to how this is handled on ia32 machines. The problem is, that SRM console won't boot from a disk with a disklabel in the second sector (at least it is so, if my patched bootstrap writer didn't do anything wrong) Is there any other method to make SRM console think it can boot from an MSDOS disklabel disk? Or do you have a theory how this could be done? If I left out any neccessary data, please tell me. Thanks for your time and help. Regards, Stefan. --=20 SuSE GmbH Can you afford *NOT* Schanz=E4ckerstr. 10 to use Linux? D-90443 N=FCrnberg =09 Germany =09=09=09AlphaPowered To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message