Dear all,
I am rather stumped by this one... a little bit of history:
* the box, a PWS 500au, suffered from the famed "high quality battery
failure" and started thinking it was an NT box,
* user thought he could fix it himself and proceeded to stick an NT
boot sector on the box by trying to install NT,
* first bit of / gets corrupted,
* given it was due for an upgrade from 4.0D PK#6 to 4.0F PK#4 I
proceed with a clean reinstall once I fix it to speak SRM again (and
upgrade the firmware in the meantime).
* boot from CD, partition disk, select subsets, start install...
* it starts installing OSFBASE440, copies the subset, starts verifying
and fails the verify,
* tries again automagically and fails again.
If I reboot the box it fails complaining about the lack of osf_boot so
I have the vague suspicion that perhaps (only perhaps) it is unable to
write osf_boot in the "correct place".
The CD has been tested and is 100% readable with no errors being
reported both on the dead box and another PWS - the CD drive is fine
and has been swapped for a known-good to no avail.
Stuff I've already tried:
* disklabel -z
* scu format on the disk
* scu verify (just in case the disk is dead)
* dd if=/dev/rz8c of=/dev/null (/dev/rz8c is the CD-ROM) to check if
the CD is 100% readable - no errors.
Any suggestions welcome...
Ciao,
Arrigo
Received on Tue Jul 25 2000 - 15:26:04 NZST