Testers wanted: Floppies round 2

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 17 March 2004 04:22 pm, Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
> On 17-Mar-04, at 10:44 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 March 2004 07:44 pm, Rob B wrote:
> >> At 08:50 AM 16/03/2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>> Ok, I think I've fixed the bug in bsdlabel that prevented it from
> >>> making
> >>> bootable floppy images for Alpha and I've built a new set of boot
> >>> floppies
> >>> via a cross-release.  You can find them at
> >>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/floppies/alpha/  I'd appreciate it if
> >>> someone
> >>> could test them to make sure they work ok.  Thanks.
> >>
> >> So far, the system boots off the boot disk, and then the loader sits
> >> there
> >> with an error message:
> >>
> >> "can't load /kernel"
> >>
> >> So I put in the kern1.flp disk, type "load /kernel?, and the loader
> >> still
> >> says "can't load /kernel"
> >
> > Ok, I haven't had a chance to test splitfs support on Alpha.  If
> > someone feels
> > up to the task, here's some simple steps to take to start with:
> >
> > 1) mdconfig and mount boot.flp image
> >
> > # cd /mnt/
> > # echo "This is test 1" > test1
> > # echo "This is test 2" > test2
> > # echo "This is test 3" > test3
> > # gzip -9 test1
> > # mv test2 test2.aa
> > # echo "test2.aa Boot" > test2.split
> > # gzip -9 test3
> > # mv test3.gz test3.gz.aa
> > # echo "test3.gz.aa Boot" > test3.gz.split
> >
> > 2) Unmount and detach md0, then dd it to a floppy
> >
> > 3) Boot up the system, let it fail to find the kernel, then to 'more'
> > all 3
> > test files to make sure they look correct, i.e.:
> >
> > ok more /test1
> > This is test 1
> > ok more /test2
> > This is test 2
> > ok more /test3
> > This is test 3
> >
> > Then let me know if it worked.
>
> I tried it and got the following result:
>
> OK more test1
> *** FILE test1 BEGIN ***
> This is test 1
> *** FILE test1 END ***
> OK more test2
> *** FILE test2 BEGIN ***
> can't open 'test2': no such file or directory
> error showing test2
> OK more test3
> *** FILE test3 BEGIN ***
> can't open 'test3': no such file or directory
> error showing test3
> OK

Ok, so splitfs doesn't work on Alpha at all.  Ah, bah!  I know what to fix.  
Thanks for doing this quick test, I should have working floppies in a day or 
two.

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