Re: No boot on AlphaServer DS25

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:59:59 +0000 (UTC)
John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hi, all,
> 
> It's been a few years since the magic smoke came out of a chip on the 
> motherboard of my only Alpha. Recently, some fine people donated an 
> AlphaServer DS25 which will be used for bulk pkgsrc package building and 
> testing. However, it seems that while systems in the same family are 
> supported and support is implied, the system doesn't boot either netbsd-7 
> or current:
> 
> http://www.ziaspace.com/~john/alphanoboot1.jpg
> http://www.ziaspace.com/~john/alphanoboot2.jpg
> 
> Has anyone else run NetBSD on a DS25 with EV68CB CPUs? I tried booting 
> both the 6.4 firmware version that the machine came with and the upgraded 
> 7.3 firmware and got the same results.

Have you tried netboot? It is not uncommon for cd drives from that era
to either have issues reliably reading cd-rw media, mechanical failure
from old age or both.

-Tobias