Duh. It helps, when booting from CDROM, to boot from a _bootable_ one, and
not from the "Complimentary Products" disc.
Many thanks to Javier Aida, Alan Rollow, and Jay Shen for putting me on the
right track.
Pat Wilson
I wrote:
> Just in case this _isn't_ hardware (too late tonight for me to find a
> spare CDROM drive)...
>
> I've got a happy new AlphaServer 2100A. Came from the factory with DU 3.2D,
> but per usual, not partitioned the way I want it. I'm not having any luck
> booting from CDROM (the newest one I could find, the 3.2D/E disc) -
>
> P00>>>boot dka500
> (boot dka500.5.0.2001.0 -flags a)
> block 0 of dka500.5.0.2001.0 is a valid boot block
> reading 16 blocks from dka500.5.0.2001.0
> bootstrap code read in
> base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 2000
> initializing HWRPB at 2000
> initializing page table at 1f2000
> initializing machine state
> setting affinity to the primary CPU
> jumping to bootstrap code
> can't open osf_boot
>
> It _is_ hitting the CDROM, and when the machine is up, I was able to mount
> this and poke around on it. I've also tried booting from the firmware
> upgrade CDROM, which did much the same, but ended with the exotic
>
> %APB-F-BADSYSROOT, System root [SYSA.] does not exist, check bootflags
>
> Of course, I hadn't expected to be able to boot from that...
>
> Tech Support hopes it's a hardware problem with the CDROM drive. Could it
> be something else?
Received on Thu May 09 1996 - 18:25:10 NZST