Re: Booting from 2nd IDE [Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks]

1999-01-22 Thread Robert Nordier
I wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > Mark Blackman wrote: > > >FWIW, I've done it under 2.2.7 by > > > > > >1) installing booteasy on both wd0 *AND* wd2 > > >2) altering the boot.config to > > > 1:wd(2,a)kernel > > > > This works for an a.out 3.0 kernel, but the old bootloader can't handle >

Re: Booting from 2nd IDE [Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks]

1999-01-21 Thread Robert Nordier
Peter Jeremy wrote: > Mark Blackman wrote: > >FWIW, I've done it under 2.2.7 by > > > >1) installing booteasy on both wd0 *AND* wd2 > >2) altering the boot.config to > > 1:wd(2,a)kernel > > This works for an a.out 3.0 kernel, but the old bootloader can't handle > ELF kernels, so this isn't a u

Re: Problem loading 2.x kernel with new bootblocks [Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks]

1999-01-21 Thread Mike Smith
> The kernel has been built with gcc-2.8.1 -O2. Please rebuild with the system compiler and -O at most. We're hard-pressed enough as it is to support our own software without introducing complete unknowns into the equation. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you

Booting from 2nd IDE [Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks]

1999-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: >Well, kind of. You "hard code" the name wd2 in your kernel >configuration file. [...] Ie, s/wd2/wd1/ > in your kernel configuration file (and rebuild :). It was wd0 (the generic). Making it wd2 didn't help. Mark Blackman wrote: >FWIW, I've done it under 2.2.7 by > >1)

Problem loading 2.x kernel with new bootblocks [Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks]

1999-01-21 Thread Peter Jeremy
Splitting the thread... "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: >> /boot/loader could load my 2.x kernel (although it happily handled > ^^ >You mean "could not", right? That's correct. >Is it kzipped, your 2.x kernel? (Is there any detail about it that >you think it is not relevant? :-)

Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks

1999-01-21 Thread Mark Blackman
FWIW, I've done it under 2.2.7 by 1) installing booteasy on both wd0 *AND* wd2 2) altering the boot.config to 1:wd(2,a)kernel 3) compiling above kernel with config kernel root on wd2 Mark In message <74039.916912...@axl.noc.iafrica.com>, Sheldon Hearn writes: > > >On Thu, 21 Jan

Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks

1999-01-21 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:21:45 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Well, kind of. You "hard code" the name wd2 in your kernel > configuration file. Loader assigns numbers sequentially. FWIW, I've never seen FreeBSD boot off a drive on the secondary IDE controller using a boot manager on the primar

Re: Experiences with aout-to-elf and new bootblocks

1999-01-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Peter Jeremy wrote: > > tutorial: http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html). I found that > /boot/loader could load my 2.x kernel (although it happily handled ^^ You mean "could not", right? > [gzip'd] -current kernels in both a.out and ELF format). The stage2 > loader