[rescue] Installing OpenBSD 3.0 on IPX

Scott Newell rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Dec 1 21:53:06 CST 2001


>Have you tried installing *any* other OS on this box
>(Solaris, NetBSD, SunOS)? At this point it looks to me
>like a hardware problem...

It'll boot and run the old OS from the disk, SunOS Release 4.1.2.  It'll
boot netbsd and run the install scripts.


>Does the power-up test all RAM? Bad mem might cause
>the boot to fail, but that is just a guess...

I had it do the diag-switch selftest, and everything (including memory) all
checked out.


thanks,
newell



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