the SRM environment. This makes the traditional "boot [/kernel] -s"
and similar things work on the Alpha. Since the flags are appended,
they augment and/or override those from the SRM environment.
a module. Also modified the code to work on FreeBSD/alpha and added
device vr0 to the alpha GENERIC config.
While I was in the neighborhood, I noticed that I was still using
#define NFPX 1 in all of the Makefiles that I'd copied from the fxp
module. I don't really use #define Nfoo X so it didn't matter, but
I decided to customize this correctly anyway.
is, don't assume that SCSI ID corresponds to a unit number of da
device. Unit number of da device is provided by 2nd stage loader
and 3rd stage loader now use it.
- Fix drive letter to display.
Submitted by: IMAI Takeshi <take-i@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
bootable on 1 FDD PC98 machines. (When an external FDD unit is
installed, unit numbers become discontinuous.)
Submitted by: IMAI Takeshi <take-i@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
result of a joined effort with parts contributed by Doug Rabson, Warner
Losh and Stefan Esser (hope I did not forget anybody). Part of the sources
is obtained from NetBSD with modifications.
This code is work in progress:
As of the time of the initial import, a loader.exe executable is built,
which can be loaded on an Alpha with NT only firmware, but no attempt is
made to switch to OSF PAL code as required to start an actual kernel.
numbers that we have been doing in the past, and read /etc/fstab off the
proposed root filesystem to determine the actual device name and vfs
type for the root filesystem. These are then exported to the kernel
via the environment variable vfs.root.mountfrom.
This should resolve the problem raised in PR 12315, and incidentally
makes it easier to determine what geometry the BIOS is actually using
(by way of boot -v and dmesg).
flag to the kernel to mount a CDROM as the root filesystem. Alternatively,
the boot_cdrom env var can be set.
As Mike Smith noted, "-C is the "wrong" way to do this", but this is
an acceptable stopgap in lieu of a better way.
PR: bin/11884
Reviewed by: msmith@freebsd.org
Use colons instead of semi-colons in the default init_path to behave like
UNIX instead of DOS.
Suggested by: bde
Reminded by: des (with no hint as to *which* man page).
* Make the network code in the bootstrap more chatty (helps debugging)
* Add nfs root stuff to cpu_rootconf(). I also added a check to make sure
it really was netbooting which allows the use of the same kernel for local
and network boots.
* Tweak the de driver so that it takes the speed setting from the console
for the alpha (some PWSs have broken de chipsets). This is the same
behaviour as NetBSD/alpha.
Submitted by: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
