6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable?

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:38:01PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote..
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:05:38PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:33:53AM -0500, Paul Baughman wrote..
> > > Wilko,
> > > 
> > > Sorry for the delay.
> > > 
> > > Here is a link to the SHOW CONF from my Lynx machine that boots the 6.0R 
> > > CD.
> > > http://www.personal.psu.edu/~phb1/AS2100A-1.txt
> > > 
> > > If there is anything else I can provide that might help out, let me know.
> > 
> > Well, you have a typical Lynx config here.  An EV5 based box.  A
> > KZPSC / Mylex DAC960 backplane raid card.  A (useless to FreeBSD) KZPSA
> > fast-wide-differential SCSI HBA, probably had an external RAIDbox on it
> > at some point.  And a FastEthernet NIC, the DE500.
> > 
> > The question now is what config the non-booting Lynx had.
> 
> My apologies for the delay -- I've now strung a 50 foot serial line out
> to the garage where the 2100A now lives.
> 
> P00>>>show dev
> dka0.0.0.2001.0            DKA0               SEAGATE ST32550W  8104
> dka600.6.0.2001.0          DKA600                        RRD45  1645
> dra0.0.0.2007.0            DRA0                5 Member RAID 5  
> dva0.0.0.1000.0            DVA0                      RX26/RX23
> ewa0.0.0.2008.0            EWA0              00-00-F8-1E-E2-C1
> pka0.7.0.2001.0            PKA0                  SCSI Bus ID 7
> pkb0.7.0.7.0               PKB0                  SCSI Bus ID 7   R01   A12
> 
> P00>>>sho conf
>                         Digital Equipment Corporation
>                            AlphaServer 2100A 4/233

AFAICS the only obvious difference is that your machine is an EV4 and the
other one a newer/faster EV5 CPU


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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org