Subject: Re: CD-ROM Booting Troubles
To: Henry R. Bent <henry.bent@oberlin.edu>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/16/2002 08:34:48
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Henry R. Bent wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having some strange CD-ROM troubles with my /125.  I replaced a dead
> RRD-42 some time ago with a Matsushita CR-506 set to 512-byte mode.  It's able
> to read and cleanly mount everything I've given it so far, from my burned ISO
> of NetBSD 1.5.2 to burned MP3 CDs to DEC Ultrix CDs.  However, I just recently
> tried booting the NetBSD CD with it for the first time and got this:
> 
> --
> 
> >>boot 3/rz4/netbsd
> 
> NetBSD/pmax 1.5.2 ISO 9660 Primary Bootstrap
> open failed
> open 3/rz4//boot.pmax: 6
> Can't load '3/rz4//boot.pmax'
> open failed
> open 3/rz4//boot: 6
> Can't load '3/rz4//boot'
> open failed
> open 3/rz4//boot.pma: 6
> Can't load '3/rz4//boot.pma'
> 

just to rule out one variable, can you look at this CD on another system
and verify that 'boot.pmax' exists in the / directory on the CD?

-Dan