Patch for floppies
Wilko Bulte
wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Thu Feb 5 12:54:27 PST 2004
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:29:37PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:26 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:01:41PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 01:52 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:06:28AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > > Ok, since the cross-built floppies don't work for whatever reason,
> > > > > someone is going to need to build a native alpha release and then
> > > > > post those floppies for testing (or test them themselves). I
> > > > > currently don't have an alpha setup such that I can do this, so I'm
> > > > > posting the patch to do so. It's quite simple and is at
> > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/alpha.floppies.patch
> > > >
> > > > I will have a go at it. Be patient..
> >
> > Freshly generated from HEAD:
> > >>>boot dva0
> >
> > (boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags a)
> > block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is not a valid boot block
> > bootstrap failure
> >
> >
> > hmm.
>
> Can bsdlabel generate a bootable floppy image at all on Alpha?
> I.e., can you do something like 'fdformat fd0', 'bsdlabel /dev/fd0 fd1440',
Well.. no. And that is because on my DS10 the floppy does not work at
all.
ds10#fdformat fd0
fdformat: open(fd0): No such file or directory
While:
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6
See also alpha/30486 for an older PR. I don't recall we ever managed
to fix it. Looks specific to EV6/Tsunami machines.
> 'newfs -O1 /dev/fd0' and see if it will at least boot up and say that it
> can't find a loader?
--
Wilko Bulte wilko at FreeBSD.org
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