Re: Problem booting off CD

[Greg Romaniak <greg@igillc.com>]

Thanks Steve.

Just for some followup, I also treid burning disc 1 on another computer 
with another burner in case it was a problem with the burner in my laptop, 
but had the same result.  I created rescue and root floppies and was able 
to boot off them and get the install running.

I still don't know why I couldn't boot of CD, but it's not that important 
anymore.

Thanks,

Greg

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> Greg writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got some DEC Personal Workstation 600AU's currently running Redhat 7.2.
> > Since Redhat doesn't seem to support Alpha anymore, I wanted to try a
> > current linux distribution that does and downloaded all 7
> > debian-30r3-alpha-binary cd images and burned them to discs.  Unfortunately
> > I can't seem to get disc 1 (or any of the others) to boot.  I get:
> >
> > > > > boot dqa0 -flags 0
> > (boot dqa0.0.0.107.0 -flags 0)
> > Block 0 of dqa0.0.0.107.0 is not a valid boot block
> > bootstrap failure
> >
> > When I pop my old Redhat 7.2 install disk in an type "boot dqa0" it starts
> > churning right along and boots off that cdrom.
> >
> > I created the discs with EZ CD Creator 5, but also tried re-burning with
> > nero 6 with the same results.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Hmmm. I created the woodyr3 CDs. I'm not aware of any problems with
> the alpha CDs, but I'll burn one and check over the weekend for you...
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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