Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 12:24:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 4100 boot/install problem Message-ID: <3B758668.5514E399@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108102325370.39666-100000@beppo>
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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
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