Bug#241231: DECstation 5000/133 (mipsel) install with some problems
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:23:20PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:21:49PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> [booting from CD]
>
> > >>cnfg 3
> > 3: KN02-BA DEC V5.7j TCF0 ( 32 MB)
> > (enet: 08-00-2b-34-ee-42)
> > (SCSI = 7)
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > DEV PID VID REV SCSI DEV
> > ===== ================== ========== ====== ========
> > rz1 RZ29B (C) DEC DEC 0016 DIR
> > rz5 CD-ROM CR-506 MATSHITA 8S05 CD-ROM
> >
> > So I did this in order to boot from CD, but it simply hangs and does not
> > (not even read from the CD afaict; I can mount the CD from Linux, though.)
>
> Does the CDROM support a blocksize of 512 bytes? DECstations cannot boot
> from "PC-style" CDROM drives with 2048 bytes/sector. The Linux kernel
> does not have this limitation, so once Linux is booted, "PC-style" drives
> work without problems.
I have googled a bit and the drive seems to have a jumper to set it to
a sector size of 512 bytes. Interestingly, the NetBSD mailinglist archives
show posts from people who had trouble booting NetBSD on a DECstation from
this CDROM model as well.
Regards,
Karsten
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