hey, i've got alpha cds building.
some of the differences in alpha cd creation caused me to decide
to redesign mkbootmedia and the associated libs - i think i've got a
template, but i still need to spend sometime re-implementing things.

here's my notes on building alpha boot cds (srm), if you're interested in
trying it:

 - the config we started with is missing a few things - static cramfs & devfs
   support - you should use the latest patches/linux.alpha.config in cvs.
 - initrd.img should not be gzipped for alpha - this change is in cvs head too
 - the contents of the directory used to generate the iso should look like
   this:

/home/dannf/alphacd/
/home/dannf/alphacd/boot
/home/dannf/alphacd/boot/initrd.img
/home/dannf/alphacd/boot/kernel
/home/dannf/alphacd/boot/bootlx
/home/dannf/alphacd/etc
/home/dannf/alphacd/etc/aboot.conf

where bootlx is from the aboot package (installed in /boot on debian)
aboot.conf should look like this:
$ cat /home/dannf/alphacd/etc/aboot.conf
0:boot/kernel root=/dev/ram initrd=boot/initrd.img

you can generate an iso using a command like this:
$mkisofs -J -r -T -v -pad -o /tmp/si-alpha.iso /home/dannf/alphacd

Then make it srm bootable by running 
$ /sbin/isomarkboot /tmp/testcd.iso boot/bootlx
note that the boot/bootlx argument is relative to the iso root.


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