Patch for floppies

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 05 February 2004 02:40 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 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.

You have to add a hint for fd.0 I think.  GENERIC.hints in current should have 
the hint listed that you would need to add your /boot/device.hints to bring 
your fd0 back.

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