Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:07:07 +0000 From: "Russell Howe" <rhowe@siksai.co.uk> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable? Message-ID: <20060206210707.GA18612@xiao.rsnet> In-Reply-To: <20060120005016.GC7231@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>
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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? -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, rhowe@siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
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