Boot Floppies for 5.x up for testing..

[Rob B]

At 06:50 AM 1/02/2004, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>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 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
> >>>

Ditto here on PC64.  Actually, none of the floppies after 5.0-RELEASE have 
booted on this box

cheers,
Rob


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