6.0R-alpha ISOs - not bootable?

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 19 January 2006 16:14, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:40:35PM +0000, Russell Howe wrote..
>
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:09:24AM -0800, J.C. Roberts wrote:
> > > Actually, the two machines might be identical and the *only* 
> > > difference is the type of CDR media being used. Older CDROM drives do
> > > not play well with a lot CDR media (depending on process type and dye
> > > color) because it has a lower reflectance than "Mastered" CDROM discs.
> >
> > I still can't get the FBSD 6.0 mini ISO to boot on my 500AU, regardless
> > of which drive I try (I've tried 3, 2 of them being writers, 1 of them a
> > modern DVD-RW/CD-RW).
> >
> > The NetBSD 3.0 installer boots just fine
> >
> > Could it be that the 6.0 bootloader is incompatible with whatever
> > release of the SRM firmware I have, or that the kernel is too big to
> > load?
>
> Unlikely, but it would be *oh so nice* if people tested the bleedin'
> pre-release beta bits instead of moaning about *release* CDs that do
> not boot.
>
> > NetBSD was burnt using the same type of media as FreeBSD was, and I
> > tried burning the FreeBSD installer multiple times on multiple OSes
> > using multiple different pieces of software.
> >
> > The message I'm getting is:
> >
> > http://siksai.co.uk/~rhowe/alpha-no-workie.txt
>
> What you should get is 406 blocks for the bootstrap:
> >>>boot dka0
>
> (boot dka0.0.0.9.0 -flags 0)
> block 0 of dka0.0.0.9.0 is a valid boot block
> reading 406 blocks from dka0.0.0.9.0
> bootstrap code read in
> base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 32c00
> initializing HWRPB at 2000
>
> Not 170135 blocks...
>
> >>boot dka0
>
> (boot dka0.0.0.107.0 -flags a)
> block 0 of dka0.0.0.107.0 is a valid boot block
> reading 170135 blocks from dka0.0.0.107.0

Simple question I know, but have the MD5 sums been verified to make sure the 
file wasn't downloaded as ASCII or something weird?

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