6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:40:35PM +0000, Russell Howe wrote..
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:09:24AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote:
> > Actually, the two machines might be identical and the *only*  difference
> > is the type of CDR media being used. Older CDROM drives do not play well
> > with a lot CDR media (depending on process type and dye color) because
> > it has a lower reflectance than "Mastered" CDROM discs.
> 
> I still can't get the FBSD 6.0 mini ISO to boot on my 500AU, regardless
> of which drive I try (I've tried 3, 2 of them being writers, 1 of them a
> modern DVD-RW/CD-RW).
> 
> The NetBSD 3.0 installer boots just fine
> 
> Could it be that the 6.0 bootloader is incompatible with whatever
> release of the SRM firmware I have, or that the kernel is too big to
> load?

Unlikely, but it would be *oh so nice* if people tested the bleedin'
pre-release beta bits instead of moaning about *release* CDs that do
not boot.

> NetBSD was burnt using the same type of media as FreeBSD was, and I
> tried burning the FreeBSD installer multiple times on multiple OSes
> using multiple different pieces of software.
> 
> The message I'm getting is:
> 
> http://siksai.co.uk/~rhowe/alpha-no-workie.txt


What you should get is 406 blocks for the bootstrap:

>>>boot dka0
(boot dka0.0.0.9.0 -flags 0)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.9.0 is a valid boot block
reading 406 blocks from dka0.0.0.9.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 32c00
initializing HWRPB at 2000

Not 170135 blocks...

>>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

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org