6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:07:07PM +0000, Russell Howe wrote..
> 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?

You can check this here:  http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org