Ultra 5 Boot Hang Update.

[Gordon Zaft]

It seems to me that a bad CDROM drive could certainly hose your boot even
if you aren't booting from it, but I am not really a firmware guy so I
could be wrong.  Did you try disconnecting the CDROM?

G

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 2017-05-08 18:34, Gordon Zaft wrote:
>
> Have you tried booting from CDROM?  I'm assuming this is 11.0?
>
> Well... the CDROM in the box probes in the openprom (ie: open prom sees
> it), but it doesn't seem to work.  I've put the 11.0 CD into it, but the
> boot fails.
>
> I'm not sure making the CD work would solve the problem, though.  Be
> clear, I've put /boot/loader on my tftpboot server as C0A8DD07
> (192.168.221.7 --- the rarp'd IP address for the machine) and loader
> loads.  Then I can successfully "load /kernel" in loader ... which causes
> it to load /tftpboot/cdrom/kernel (/cdrom is the nfs root ... which is
> where the image of the CD is mounted on the network).
>
> You might say that I'm not a noob when it comes to netbooting old UN*X
> boxes.  Wel... maybe it took me a dozen tries to "remember" things, but
> still... I got it done.
>
> But if the kernel boots, would an alternate method of booting the kernel
> really make any difference?
>
> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> so the whole boot -v is attached via the link below.  Please help.  Hangs
>> forever after the last pcib1 line (and STOP-A doesn't drop to a prompt)
>> ... just to jog everyone's memory, to get this going I (translate / to
>> enter):
>>
>> set-defaults/1 0 mkp/80 1 mkp/8 2 mkp/0 3 mkp/20 4 mkp/c0 5 mkp/ff 6
>> mkp/ee
>> 7 mkp/0 8 mkp/0 9 mkp/0 a mkp/0 b mkp/c0 c mkp/ff d mkp/ee e mkp/0 f 0 do
>> i
>> idprom@ xor loop f mkp
>>
>> ... does that initialization pose some problem for FreeBSD?
>>
>> https://owncloud.towernet.ca/index.php/s/14awIqSzdOBexok
>>
>
>


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Gordon Zaft
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