Date: 24 Feb 1999 10:04:39 +0100 From: Martin Ostermann <ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Khaled Daham <khaled@mailbox.telia.net>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootable CD Message-ID: <43iucsqijc.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:03:07 %2B0000 (GMT)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902232100410.60339-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:03:07 +0000 (GMT), Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> said: >> I ws just wondering if there is a special tweak to make a bootable CD >> for alpha. Ive done so for i386, and repeating that procedure didnt work >> on my alpha, SRM didnt think the CD had a valid bootblock.So has anyone >> tried ? [..] > I think NetBSD has some code for making bootable cds for alphas but I > don't have the source tree handy right now... There's also isomarkboot in the aboot package of Linux/Alpha. I once got it compiled and used on FreeBSD/x86, though it needed some patches, because it wasn't 32 bit clean, but assumed sizeof(long) == 8. If my patches didn't make into the source yet, you should be able find them in the axp-list archive at RedHat (sometimes around summer '96, I believe). HTH, Martin -- Martin Ostermann | mailto:ost+sig0@comnets.rwth-aachen.de Communication Networks | http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~ost Aachen University of Technology | phone: ++49/241/807917 Germany | fax: ++49/241/8890378 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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