From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 7 13: 5:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC0DD37B405; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04664; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:05:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f77K5Lf01678; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:05:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 22:05:21 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mike Smith , John Baldwin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems creating 4.4-alpha test/release cdrom Message-ID: <20010807220521.A1582@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3B6FA40E.A2E374EB@mindspring.com> <200108070845.f778jei09077@mass.dis.org> <20010807202824.C910@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3B703A47.C4B5F82E@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B703A47.C4B5F82E@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:58:15AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:58:15AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > - the file is too small > > > > Hardly, as ls -l says: > > > > 6229000 KERNEL > > Is this "ls -l" in the loader? I'll assume it is, since "KERNEL" > is in upper case. 8-). Yep, this is the CD alright. > > kernel: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1 (FreeBSD), > > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > I think this is just because it's a .so; this actually doesn't > seem right to me, though it might just be "file". If you had > not successfully booted it after copying it over, I'd ask you > to nm it and look for the ld.so stubs. 8-(. > > > a burn error (less likely but not impossible). > > > > Starts to smell like mkisofs. > > Then the image would be bad coming off the CDROM. The only > other thing that occurs to me is that your "cdboot" is bad, > or you have a problem with your CDROM drive. I know I was > not able to boot my Alpha from some CDROM drives, but had no > problem when using my trusty old SCSI CDROM, a Toshiba 3401B, > due to block size problems... maybe you are seeing that? My > box is also a Miata... This is a true DEC RRD46, so no block size problems (512 versus 2048 you mean I suppose). The same drive boots other CDs just fine. But just tried [elimination Dr Watson..] the CD on my other Miata who has a different CD drive. Same problem. I think, BTW, that Miata SRM is smart enough to mode-select the CD drive into the right blocksize. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message