Subject: Re: Having trouble booting DEC3000/400 from netBSD ISO image
To: Matthew van de Werken <mvdw73@dingoblue.net.au>
From: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
List: port-alpha
Date: 08/14/2001 08:17:24
>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew van de Werken <mvdw73@dingoblue.net.au> writes:

    Matthew> I've burnt the 1.5.1 alpha CD (using winOnCD), reads fine
    Matthew> in my Linux box. However, when I try to boot my DEC
    Matthew> 3000/400 with it, I get:

    Matthew> AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ...

    Matthew> ? 7_ERR_SCSI - CHECK_MEDIA/DEVICE

    Matthew>   84 FAIL

    Matthew> Any ideas? I don't even know if the CD drive works, so
    Matthew> maybe that's the problem, or there could be another
    Matthew> hardware fault with the machine (I've never actually
    Matthew> booted it into *anything*).

As I can remember (it's some months ago ;-)) I had similar problems
with cdrom booting our DEC 3000 - M300X (Does it make a difference?).
So I managed to get it booted via network. Do you have the appropriate
network scenario for that?

Markus.