From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 8 09:13:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A33316A420 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:13:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC95843D49 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:13:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr14.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k089Dlto013076; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:13:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k089DlRT002819; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:13:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k089Dk06002818; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:13:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wb) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 10:13:46 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Tillman Hodgson Message-ID: <20060108091346.GA2801@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20060107232833.GA53165@seekingfire.com> <20060107233120.GA556@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060107233606.GB53165@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060107233606.GB53165@seekingfire.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:13:54 -0000 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 > > > > ^^^^ > > > > (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