From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 29 23:20:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA49337B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA25360; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:20:40 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:20:40 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Terry Lambert Cc: Klaus Berbach , "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: 4.2 fails to boot (kernel) from CD In-Reply-To: <200011300614.XAA06412@usr08.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks, Terry, for clarifying. I thought I was clear, but I guess I was speaking in code. At an rate, David O'Brien has already confirmed that the cdboot was broken,= so unless you re-burn a CD after today, please build the two floppies (kern.fl= p && mfsroot.flp) from the CD and boot kern.flp (boot dva0) instead. On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I have problems with the 4.2 iso for Alpha and I can=B4t > > > boot from CD. After boot dka400 everything works fine > > > until: > > >=20 > > > Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for > > > command promt. > > > Booting [kernel]... > > > / > > >=20 > > > Well ... here it hangs. Version 4.1 has no problems and > > > the CD seems to be ok. Anyway, I have burned it with > > > two different programms and then got the image a second > > > time. No difference. I am running an Alpha Station500.=20 > > > Anyone equal experience ? > >=20 > > Umm.... Have you tried the boot floppies? >=20 > Klaus: >=20 > He is asking you to do a problem determination as to whether > this is actually a CDROM specific problem, or a problem with > 4.2 on your system. >=20 > (Just in case it looked like he was telling you to use the > floppies instead of the CDROM for no good reason, which is > how it looked to me, the first time I read it). >=20 > So even if it's a pain, if you can try the floppies, it will > give him information on where to look for your problem. >=20 >=20 > =09=09=09=09=09Terry Lambert > =09=09=09=09=09terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message