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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:45:49 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: floppies for alpha/DP2
Message-ID:  <20021107194548.GY46686@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021107133240.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20021107100959.I4414-100000@wonky.feral.com> <XFMail.20021107133240.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:32:40PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 07-Nov-2002 Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > FYI
> > 
> > I've just barely managed to finally shuffle and squeeze things down to
> > fit floppies- 7 blocks to spare for kern.flp.
> > 
> > I'm going to test them later today to see if they're usable- that't the
> > next step.
> 
> They won't be.  I'm currently working on trying to fix libdisk to
> work again on alpha machines.  The only remaining problem seems to be
> that somehow the checksum on the disk is wrong after an install so the
> disks won't boot from SRM.  I don't know why yet.

Sounds like the same problem that I had when trying to boot from UFS2.
No way to get a new disklabel to work from SRM.
It only worked with an old disklabel.
Unfortunately I went out of time to investigate further.
This is the last outstanding problem to boot from UFS2.
If you already try this - can you please verify that an UFS2 enabled
boot1 also works for UFS1 floppies?
We could safely enable it then.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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