Re: unable to boot sparc64 cd33.iso with Ultra-10

[jurvis lasalle <lasalle@bard.edu>]

On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 12:28 America/New_York, jurvis lasalle 
wrote:

> On Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003, at 16:51 America/New_York, jurvis lasalle 
> wrote:
>
>> <insert typical newbie introduction>
>> I have heard many good things about OpenBSD and was interested in 
>> putting it on a new (to me) Ultra-10.
>> I retrieved the cd33.iso and burned it to disk.  I couldn't boot to 
>> the disk at first so I upgraded the Flash PROM to the latest 
>> available.  Afterwards I still couldn't boot to the disk so I got a 
>> new copy from ftp.openbsd.org (making sure that i got sparc64 .iso) 
>> and burned another copy.  i went on to make two floppies as well from 
>> floppy33.fs.  No booting, no how.  Here are the messages that I see:
>>
>> <error_msg>
>> ok boot cdrom
>> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args:
>> Can't read disk label.
>> Can't open disk label package
>>
>> Can't open boot device
>>
>> ok boot floppy bsd
>> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree File and args: bsd
>> Bad magic number in disk label
>> Can't open disk label package
>>
>> Can't open boot device
>> </error_msg>
>>
>> I have verified the md5 checksums and run 'cmp /dev/fd0 floppy33.fs' 
>> on the floppy.  I'd like to note that i can boot the computer from 
>> the Solaris 9 installation cd's with 'boot cdrom'.  Anyone know 
>> what's tripping me up?  Thanks in advance
>>
>> Jurvis LaSalle
>>
>
>
> Is there any other information that this list could use to help me 
> diagnose this problem?  I'd much rather be using OpenBSD than 
> Solaris...
>

I have received several suggestions to reburn the image.  I have 
downloaded cd33.iso three separate times using a windows box and a mac 
(twice).  I have burned it three times also.   I have burned many iso's 
(that boot) using these platforms.  Is there anything special about 
cd33.iso that I should know?  Can anyone out there vouch for this image?

Jurvis LaSalle
	
ps  I will gladly buy the official discs once I verify the OS's 
usefulness within my organization.