Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:22:38 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Russell Howe <rhowe@siksai.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable? Message-ID: <20060206212238.GA80445@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060206210707.GA18612@xiao.rsnet> References: <20060107233120.GA556@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20060119144035.GA1866@xiao.rsnet> <20060119211400.GA65337@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200601191648.05543.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060120005016.GC7231@xiao.rsnet> <20060206210707.GA18612@xiao.rsnet>
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:07:07PM +0000, Russell Howe wrote.. > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:50:16AM +0000, Russell Howe wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:48:03PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > Simple question I know, but have the MD5 sums been verified to make sure the > > > file wasn't downloaded as ASCII or something weird? > > > > I checked the MD5sum of the ISO image that I used to create the CDs, and > > it checked out. I haven't (yet) dd'd the filesystem off the CD and md5'd > > that to check that the CD was created correctly. I'll take it into the > > office tomorrow and check. > > OK, so it's not quite Jan 21st, but I've got my DVD/CD-RW into a Linux > box, and checked the discs. One of them came up with I/O errors so I > chucked it. > > I burnt a fresh disc of the 6.0R bootonly .iso image, and > 'md5sum /dev/cdrom' checks out OK against CHECKSUM.MD5 on ftp.freebsd.org. > The alpha currently has NetBSD on it, so I did an md5 from there of the > same disc and that came out OK too, but it still failed to boot in the > same way as before. > > > If all looks well, then I'll try and find out where things broke between > > 4.10R and 6.0R > > I burnt the 5.4 bootonly .iso image, checking the MD5sums on both the > Linux box and the NetBSD install on the alpha, and that gets past the > bootloader just fine, although it has the problem I always had with FBSD > 5.x of the box rebooting just as the SCSI controller (isp0) is > initialised. > > Is there anything in between 5.4 and 6.0R which I could test? > > "show version" from the SRM says: > > V7.1-3 Nov 16 1999 17:49:20 > > Is this especially old? You can check this here: http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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