From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 14 1:48:34 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 21D2D3EE6 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:48:31 -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 12KI7Y-000HzY-0W; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:48:45 +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 JAA29491; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:49:43 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:49:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Wilko Bulte Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: creating bootable cd for alpha In-Reply-To: <20000213202719.B25640@yedi.iaf.nl> 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, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:49:58AM -0800, 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. > > Yep, I figured that one out. The whole concept of Torito is a bit alien to > Alpha. > > > setcdboot alpha-boot.iso /boot/cdboot > > setcdboot alpha-liveFS.iso /boot/cdboot > > Right, thanks. I'll post results for other systems once I've tested them Make sure you have a kernel in the root of the CD filesystem too otherwise there is nothing for /boot/cdboot to load... -- 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