Subject: RE: Using restore CDs
To: None <port-cobalt@NetBSD.org>
From: Joe Pribele <jpribele@sympatico.ca>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 04/07/2004 07:17:19
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My problem was the boot loader and I only had 16mb of RAM. You have 128mb it
shouldn't be a problem but check it out.
-----Original Message-----
From: port-cobalt-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-cobalt-owner@NetBSD.org]On
Behalf Of Anthony Cooper
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 5:27 AM
To: port-cobalt@NetBSD.org
Subject: Using restore CDs
Hi,
Sorry if you have answered this a few times before but I've been digging
around in the archives and haven't found a definitive answer...
I purchased a Qube2 off eBay recently. It turned up running Cobalt OS, but
came with 2 CDs, the Cobalt Restore and NetBSD. I decided to switch to
NetBSD, ran the installer... it got to 'Rebooting...', then it just hangs on
'Starting up'. I left it like this for a whole afternoon incase something
was running.
I have 20Gb HD and 128Mb RAM so hardware shouldn't be a problem.
I dug throught these lists and various other sites I googled and have
played around with the HD jumper settings to no avail.
I don't have much time to fiddle around with the Qube at the moment so
thought I'd just stick the Cobalt OS back on... but that didn't work
either... the install starts up and runs through a couple of checks, then
just restarts and sits at 'Starting up'.
Thing is, my main machine is a Mac running OS X and I did the install
using a machine I borrowed from work, which is an intel based SGI machine,
full of weird SCSI parts and components. Seems to run the NetBSD restore OK
but I'm not sure all the drivers load properly for the Cobalt restore.
Any ideas? Right now I'd just settle for a working Qube.
I have thought of buying a serial cable to check out the output when the
Qube boots but being a mac user I'm not too sure about terminal programs on
Windows that would be suitable for this.
TIA,
Ant
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