From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bob Tracy Subject: Does SRM care what IDE optical drive it sees? Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:08:44 -0600 Message-ID: <20100226040843.GA28184@gherkin.frus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Resent-Message-ID: List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Situation: I've got a PWS 433au (Miata) on which I've been trying to do a "from scratch" install of Lenny. (See the gory details on debian-alpha). To make a long story short, I had reason to try and replace the existing CD-ROM drive with a CD-RW burner, and the Alpha refused to boot. I couldn't even get the power-up diagnostics to run. I put the original CD-ROM drive back in the system (and removed the new one). Result: everything works correctly. Is SRM really that picky about the optical drive? Or did I simply install a defective drive (not likely, but I'll consider the possibility)? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit rct@frus.com | upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin | slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken ------------------------------------------------------------------------