RAID controller problem on Digital Server 5305

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:17:25PM +1200, Anthony O'Meara wrote:
> I downloaded "cdboot-5.1-CURRENT-20030713-JPSNAP.iso" from
> current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/
> and burnt it to CD, I can view the cd on my Windows desktop, It has serveral
> text files and a folder called boot
> 
> (Alpha cdrom:
>     show device
>     polling ncr0 (NRC 53C810) slot 1, bus 0 PCI, hoise 1    SCSI Bus ID 7
>     dka400.4.0.1.1     DKA400     RRD46    1337
> )
> 
> When I put the cd in the cdrom of the Alpha and go "b dka400"
>     (boot dka400.4.0.1.1)
>     block 0 of dka400.4.0.1.1 is not valid boot block
>     bootstrap failture
> 
> Why?

It possibly hasn't had setcdboot run on it.  You can build it on an
i386 system and issue:

    setcdboot cdboot-5.1-CURRENT-20030713-JPSNAP.iso /boot/cdboot