Testers wanted: Floppies round 2

[Stephane E. Potvin]

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

Steph