Im not a cobalt bootloader guru , However that error after
"jump_to_real_kernel" sounds more like it boots its flash kernel then tries
to load the real kernel off the disk.

to use the restore cd shouldnt the raq be set to netboot?

or am I just very confused and lost in the thread.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Cooper" <anthony.cooper@mac.com>
To: <port-cobalt@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: Using restore CDs


Hi,

I've now got the following results from Hyperterm:

Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'

Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999

  1.LCD Test................................PASS
  2.Controller Test.........................PASS
  5.Bank 0:.................................64M
  6.Bank 1:.................................64M
  7.Bank 2:.................................16M
  8.Bank 3:.................................16M
  9.Serial Test.............................PASS
10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1
Decompressing -\|/-\|/-\|/-\| done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hdc1
Decompressing -/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\ done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
get_root_dev: nr_boot_failures 0x00000002 exceeds maxtries 0x00000002
for boot_index 0x00000000


  *** halting ***

Looks like a HD problem to me... anyone know if this means the disk is
damaged or just setup wrongly, jumpers perhaps?

Thanks,
Ant
---
On 7 Apr 2004, at 12:09, Brian wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, April 7, 2004, at 05:27 AM, Anthony Cooper wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> That's the next step.  HyperTerm comes with most Windows flavors that
> I've used, and is all you need.
>
> Once you see why it is hanging it should not be too bad to get it
> going.  Did you find the nice "how-to" FAQ posted on this list in
> Jan(?) of this year?  That is a good checklist.  Also you don't say
> you are using the Qube-specific install .iso that Dennis built; there
> are a couple references to that in the lsit archives from about that
> time as well.  If you aren't using that .iso, you should give it a
> try- I think the regular one had issues with Qubes.
>
> Brian
>