Cross-Building Alpha on i386

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:12:33PM -0400, Thomas Laus wrote..
> Date sent:      	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:18:04 +0200
> From:           	Wilko Bulte <wb at freebie.xs4all.nl>
> Subject:        	Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386
> To:             	Thomas Laus <lausts at acm.org>
> Copies to:      	freebsd-alpha at freebsd.org
> 
> > Did you run setcdboot on the ISO before burning it on CD?  If you don't
> > it won't be bootable. 
> > 
> > Can't comment on how well X-building works in x86, I always built natively
> > on Alpha.
> > 
> I had to hunt for that program, `setcdboot'.  It was in /ports/sysutils.  I 
> built the utility and made a new .iso.  One of the parameters that setcdboot 
> requires is the < boot path> as well as the name of my new .iso.  I tried the 
> root directory `/' as the boot path and DKA400 was at least accessed, but 
> then the I got a `boot failure'.  Should the I set the boot path to 
> `/boot/cdboot' or something else.  When using this utility is it still 

yes, 'setcdboot myiso.iso /boot/cdboot'

> necessary to have `mkisofs' write boot blocks to the .iso or is it only 
> required that I use `setcdboot' to make the cd bootable.

setcdboot is sufficient.

> Alpha's are certainly special in a lot of ways.

You tell me ;-)

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org