Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 09:49:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: creating bootable cd for alpha Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002140948310.298-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000213202719.B25640@yedi.iaf.nl>
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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
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