[ale] OT: osol CD won't boot

[Scott Castaline]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> Another thing slightly related: When loading IRIX onto my SGI hardware, 
> not just any drive would work. It had to have a certain physical drive 
> relationship with sectors and chunk sizes (I may have terms wrong here - 
> it's been a while). So since your VM is having the issue, I agree it's 
> likely the VM bios presenting a slightly incompatible drive process.
> 
It's actually the other way around. The CD boots in a VM but not the 
physical box. My guess is that VBox VM presents a very generic cd drive 
on a very generic IDE bus. My physical hdwe is actually on the primary 
IDE port of a PCI option card

> The"F" is for "Fake" in the chipset string.
> 
I had looked it up on the AMD site and there is a subtle difference that 
  the 790X series supports the newer AM3 socket and is backwards 
compatible. It also came with the SB700(?) instead of the SB600.
>  :-)
> 
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net 
> <mailto:hscast at charter.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Jim Kinney wrote:
>      > Try reburning the CD and turn the burn speed down to the slowest
>      > setting. The cd drive may be having issues reading the disk. I
>     have seen
>      > this with older drives no liking a CD burned at high speeds. The
>     drive I
>      > burned in was used to verify the disk checksum but the target
>     drive was
>      > very unhappy. Ran the burn speed to 2x and all went fine.
>      >
>      > I seem to recall this a media problem and not really an old drive
>     problem.
>      >
>      > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Scott Castaline
>     <hscast at charter.net <mailto:hscast at charter.net>
>      > <mailto:hscast at charter.net <mailto:hscast at charter.net>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Okay maybe way off topic, but I'm not sure what's happening and I
>      >     haven't been able to get an answer at OpenSolaris.org. I have
>     been
>      >     playing around with opensolaris 200811 on virtualbox. the
>     image file as
>      >     well as a cd burned with the image will boot in a VM. The
>     problem I have
>      >     is that when I try to boot on the actual physical machine I
>     get know
>      >     where, just a GRUB> prompt. When I manually step through the
>     process,
>      >     I'll get Error 25: Disk read error. I have just tried it on
>     another
>      >     system and it'll boot fine. The HCL has mention of a MoBo
>     similar to
>      >     mine as working, what else could be interfering with it?
>      >
>      >     TIA
>      >     Scott
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>     The burner is a new one, I had burned 3 different CDs using 3 different
>     apps, at near the slowest burn speed. I've always had a habit of doing
>     slow burns. The same CDs on the same drive works in a VM on Virtualbox,
>     so I think that rules out the CD and the drive. I beleive the difference
>     is that in the VM it more than likely presents a different BIOS an MoBO
>     even though it uses my physical processor as is, and possibly memory as
>     is. I'm beginnig to think that it maybe a BIOS issue or the physical
>     chipset. Although I have seen a similar Gigabyte MoBo on their HCL. I
>     believe the closest chipset was a 790X/SB600 and mine is a 790FX/SB600,
>     I can't seem to find what difference the F makes.
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