Subject: Re: CD-ROM Booting Troubles
To: Henry R. Bent <henry.bent@oberlin.edu>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/24/2002 15:15:24
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Henry R. Bent wrote:
: I'm having some strange CD-ROM troubles with my /125.
: >>boot 3/rz4/netbsd
:
: NetBSD/pmax 1.5.2 ISO 9660 Primary Bootstrap
: open failed
: Does this mean that the CD-ROM is unable to read boot sectors? It doesn't
: seem like it, because it was able to at least get the Primary Bootstrap from
: the NetBSD CD. What else could be causing this?
Looks like the CD is fine. Some revisions of the PROM on /125s (I have one)
are completely incapable of booting CDs, and no one is quite sure why. It's
not determined whether you need a "special DEC" CD drive, or if it just
Won't Work on those PROM revisions.
Looks like you'll have to netboot it if you need to reinstall.
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