Joshua Scott wrote:

....
>>ISL Revision A.00.38 Oct 26. 1994
>>
>>ISL Booting hpux (;0) INSTALL
>>
>>Boot
>>: disc(52.0.0;0):INSTALL
>>3462652 + 315392 + 305120 start 0x1b92e8
>>"
>>...and there it sits - apparently forever.
>>
>>I have googled for this problem, and have found several similar situations
>>(hang/freeze right after the kernel loads), and the suggestions have mostly
>>been 'check SCSI termination, check CDROM blocksize, possibly a HD failure'
>>etc.
>>I am /pretty/ sure my SCSI termination is OK (external terminator on the
>>rear port, cdrom terminated her) - the system gives me an "ENTRY_INIT status
>>= -4" the second I forget termination on either end of the chain.
>>I know the Plextor drive is set to 512B blocks, and I have from hearsay that
>>the Toshiba drive does this as well.
>>I also do not think I have a hd failure. I get this same symptom both with
>>the old (working) HD attached, as well as without any HD at all.
>>
>>I've reached the end of my whits here - any ideas or ovious errors in the
>> above?

>
> Have you tried with the Block size set to 2048? IIRC, this is what you need for
> it to boot properly.
>
> Josh
>

Hi Josh,

Just tried it. No effect (it didn't work, but there was no change at all
either). I would have expected some sort of hard error due to the mismatched
blocksize. While googling, I read that only 'some' cdrom drives were usable,
and interpreted that as meaning that only 'some' were configurable to 512B
blocksize.

I guess I'll have to test my cdroms on a different system (pc) to make sure
they actually work. It would surprise me if they're both borked the same
way, tho.

Thank you .-)

-S

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