Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:13:46 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable? Message-ID: <20060108091346.GA2801@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060107233606.GB53165@seekingfire.com> References: <20060107232833.GA53165@seekingfire.com> <20060107233120.GA556@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060107233606.GB53165@seekingfire.com>
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On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:36:06PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote.. > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:31:20AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 05:28:33PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote.. > > > > > AlphaServer 2100A Console V5.3-10, built on Oct 16 1998 at 14:06:58 > > > > ^^^^ > <snip> > > > (boot dka600.6.0.2001.0 -flags A) > > > failed to open dka600.6.0.2001.0 > > > > > > I've tried both disc1 (shown) and bootonly. I've confirmed the SHA256 > > > checksums on the downloaded images and I burned them using burncd on a > > > FreeBSD -current i386 box. > > > > > > My older 6.0-beta5 CD boots fine (though as an older thread will show > > > actually doesn't noot *correctly* on 2100A machines, but that's a whole > > > other issue). > > > > > > Is this a known issue? Does that ISO image work for other folks? > > > > It does. But support for the AS2100A 'Lynx' wasn't stellar in its best > > days, and apparantly it has gone downhill :( > > It seems odd that that ability to even open the CD went away for 2100A > machines between beta5 and release. I was hoping for an /improvement/ as > it seems that the EISA detection was the only thing holding me back ;-) I have seen the phenomenon you see only when either the media was goofed or the cd drive bad. Or a CDR or CDRW in an old-model CD drive. Older Alphas typically have CD drives that will either not read CDRW, sometimes read CDR depending on the media used. This is a wild guess in this case. > What are other folks doing with their 2100As these days? Scrap them? I was offered one recently but politely declined :) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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