From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 14 1:47:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D501D3E78 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:47:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12KI6U-000HuE-0W; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:47:38 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29186; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:48:37 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:48:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: creating bootable cd for alpha In-Reply-To: <20000213094958.E91242@dragon.nuxi.com> 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 On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:39:29PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > What I'm looking is the right magical commands to make such a cd. I assume > > Alpha uses a bootable ufs cd instead of RockRidge. > > Not quite -- RockRidge is still useful (especially for Disc 2). Rather > you do not specify a boot image as you would on the i386. > > When I hacked `make release' to support cdbooting on the Alpha, I maked > my ISO images by: > > mkisofs -v -a -o alpha-boot.iso -r -d -T /release/R/cdrom/disc1 > mkisofs -v -a -o alpha-liveFS.iso -r -d -T /release/R/cdrom/disc2 > > setcdboot alpha-boot.iso /boot/cdboot > setcdboot alpha-liveFS.iso /boot/cdboot > > [ `setcdboot' is in ports/sysutils/setcdboot, and has only been tested on > the Alpha. If anybody has tried doing the `setcdboot' step on an i386 > box I would be interested to hear about it. ] I believe setcdboot should work when run on an i386 (the resulting image being bootable on an alpha of course). I used it on an i386 several times while working on the cd boot support. -- 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