Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:05:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Martin Ostermann <ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, grog@lemis.com, ks@hirvi.net, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box Message-ID: <199905042005.NAA01057@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "04 May 1999 09:42:34 %2B0200." <43g15dz3f9.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de>
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> On Mon, 3 May 1999 16:49:07 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> said: > >> You won't need a CD writer for testing, a spare SCSI disk with about > >> 700MB capacity or more would be just fine. It doesn't matter to SRM > >> whether the image is on a CD or on a hard disk... > > > Hmm. Sounds like a standard SRM boot when (which is easy). Just need to > > make sure that libstand understands iso9660 filesystems. > > Yes, that makes sense. I looked at the isomarkboot code: The position and > size of the bootable file it put into byte locations 480ff. Both are > measured in blocks. > > There's one problem with this: It's only possible to boot from CD > drives that support a 512 byte block size. Not all drives do that, > and it's a burden to jumper them in the right way. Maybe it would be > possible to make those entries in 2048 unities? I never tried it, and > then of course a real CD would be needed for testing. It's been a Very Long Time since you had to jumper CDROMs to boot off them; I know for a fact that most Sun hardware can boot off CDROMs set either way, I'd have assumed that Alphas can as well. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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