Re: Boot Problem -- Firmware?
On May 28 2002, Brian Kim wrote:
> I've tried asking on #debian (openprojects.net) with no replies and
> I'm sure my floppies are good (ran cmp after dd and the md5sum on
> the disk image is good).
Well, I'd think that only the floppies being good may not be
sufficient. They'd have to be readable by your 8500/150's
drive, whose heads may not be aligned in the same way of your
8500/180.
To rule out this problem, are you able to get, say, an iso
from LinuxPPC booting on the 180? This may give an indication
if there is any problem with particular boot methods on that
computer.
I'm suggesting LinuxPPC since as far as I remember, that is
one distribution that has bootable CDs on oldwords.
Hope this helps, Roger...
P.S.: If you indeed can get LinuxPPC installed, you might perhaps try
other bootfloppies (perhaps creating them with the 180's floppy drive
on the 150) or you may install Debian via a chroot installation
(something I've done in the past).
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