Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386
Wilko Bulte <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Cross-Building Alpha on i386 > To: Thomas Laus <[email protected]> > Copies to: [email protected] > > > 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 ;-) -- Wilko Bulte [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"