Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:25:24 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: creating bootable cd for alpha Message-ID: <20000213202524.A25640@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <90446.950463362@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:36:02AM -0800 References: <20000213173929.A15547@yedi.iaf.nl> <90446.950463362@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:36:02AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard 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.
>
> Real easy these days!
>
> First go make your release and produce an ISO image with mkisofs.
> Then go build /usr/ports/sysutils/setcdboot on your alpha
> and do the following:
>
> setcdboot your-image.iso /boot/cdboot
>
> And the resulting image will be bootable. The 4.0-RC ISO image for
> the alpha on ftp.freebsd.org went through this process and I managed
> to boot and install from it just fine.
Thanks. FYI I can report success booting to sysinstall on a MiataGL with
a SCSI cdrom. I hope to try some other system models monday or tuesday.
--
Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands
WWW : http://www.tcja.nl
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