From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Aug 11 12:23:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 528A837B401; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:23:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.135.88.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.135.88]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23786; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B758668.5514E399@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:24:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "David O'Brien" , Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 4100 boot/install problem References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > Well, as far as I read Wilko's mail, it seemed like it was an open > question as to whether it was a correctly constituted CDROM. Perhaps > I'm confused. I usually am. He was unable to boot from CDROM. He mounted the CDROM, copied the kernel off, and was able to boot it on a machine from the hard drive; therefore: o The bits on the CDROM are OK o The kernel is OK This leaves: o The loader is borked o The CDROM drive is incompatible with his hardware for booting o The sector size is wrong for his boot code (2048 vs. 512) and CDROM jumper settings o Unknown possibility #6 He's verified that the last two are not the case by trying a different drive on a different machine, and by trying a bootable disk (not FreeBSD) on the machine. This leaves only: o The loader is borked o Unknown possibility #6 Barring evidence or supposition for the latter, it seems to be the former. 8-). > I've set a make release going. When I get back on Monday, I'll try > and make a CD image from the result, if that worked. Cool; personally, I don't have that many spare coasters to burn lying around, and just my laptop to burn them, so I've been a bit hesitant to jump into the forever it takes to build a release for my Alpha, since cross-build installation still doesn't work, and I can't use any of my really fast machines. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message