Boot Floppies for 5.x up for testing..

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Sat Jan 31 11:50:55 PST 2004


On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 12:36:54AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:24:58PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Using the new splitfs stuff, I've built a set of Alpha boot floppies.  Note 
> > that there is no fixit floppy, just the actual boot floppies.  If someone 
> > will test that these work ok then I will commit the changes.  Alpha now 
> > requires 4 floppies: 1 boot, 2 for kernel, and 1 for the mfsroot.  The floppy 
> > images are at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/floppies/alpha/
> 
> I'll see what I can do. WIll probably take until Sunday until I have time.

Hmm.

I assume I have to start with boot.flp?

That gives:

Digital AlphaStation 500/266
Console V7.2-2 Apr  4 2000 17:17:43
>>>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
>>>


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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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