Problems booting the bootonly ISO on a Personal Workstation 500AU

[Russell Howe]

Firstly, apologies if this isn't the list to discuss installation
problems.. the description on the website seemed to indicate it was more
of a list for people actually involved at the source code level of the
port.. feel free to tell me to go away!

I thought I'd give 6.0-RELEASE a try, but I can't even get the CD to
boot.

>>>show device
dka0.0.0.107.0             DKA0           SONY DVD RW DRU-510A  1.0f
dkc0.0.0.1004.0            DKC0                       RZ2CD-KS  0306
dkc200.2.0.1004.0          DKC200            COMPAQ BB00912301  B016
dkc300.3.0.1004.0          DKC300            COMPAQ BB00912301  B016
dva0.0.0.0.1               DVA0
ewa0.0.0.3.0               EWA0              00-00-F8-76-11-7C
pkc0.7.0.1004.0            PKC0                  SCSI Bus ID 7  5.57
pqa0.0.0.107.0             PQA0                       PCI EIDE
pqb0.0.0.207.0             PQB0                       PCI EIDE
>>>boot dka0
(boot dka0.0.0.107.0 -flags a)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.107.0 is a valid boot block
reading 170135 blocks from dka0.0.0.107.0
failed to read dka0.0.0.107.0
bootstrap failure
>>>

This was my latest attempt - all other attempts have been identical in
their result.

I've tried various permutations of:

* The CD drive the machine came with (Toshiba XM-6202B)
* An old CD writer I had knocking around (Mitsumi CR-4801TE)
* My fairly modern DVD/CD rewriter (Sony DRU-510A)

and CDs burnt using CD RecorderXP on Windows, Iomega Hotburn on Windows,
and cdrecord on Knoppix.

The cdrecord one I even did at single speed, but no luck.

Am I doing something wrong?

Also, if it's possible to boot the installer over the network, without
need for media, I would love to do so, but the alpha part of the
handbook makes no mention of it being possible (only floppies and CDs
are mentioned).

I have one and a half more 500AUs should anyone think it's a problem
with this particular machine, so I could try swapping the hardware
around...

-- 
Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?