Re: PWS 500AU won't boot Tru64 CD

On Tue, 16 May 2006 17:32:01 +0200
Stefaan A Eeckels <hoendech@xxxxxx> wrote:

On 15 May 2006 13:58:03 -0700
kidde_valind@xxxxxxxx wrote:

My PWS 500 AU won't boot the Tru64 CDROM I got with it, giving me an
error message saying
"block 0 of dkb0.0.0.207.0 is not a valid boot device"

Linux and OpenVMS installation CDs boot fine, which makes me curios.
Is the CD broken, or am I doing something wrong?

Tru64 can only boot from the first CD-ROM on the first IDE interface.
While in SRM, do a "show config | more" and look for the first PCI IDE
controller. The CD-ROM on that controller should be called
"dka0.0...". If it's called "dka100.0.0..." you will not be able to
boot from it.

Excuse me, but this is plain wrong. It is also able to boot from SCSI
devices, as is the case here.


Simply switching the CD-ROM to be "master" on the first IDE interface
should do the trick.

Should be quite hard to hook up a SCSI CD drive to an IDE port...

Marc
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