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Package: boot-floppies
Version: sparc
Hi,
I'm sorry to bother you with this problem, but I cannot find
answers elsewhere and I'm reaching the limits of my patience.
I have not had any success at all booting a SPARC (IPX) from
any of the rescue boot images that I have tried.
I have tried a number of different floppies, formatted them
and written them a number of times but all with the same result.
At the Sparc boot prompt, I do a 'b floppy', the floppy
fires-up, spells out 'SILO' one char at a time and then
says:
Fatal error: Cannot read partition
Illegal or malformed device name
Fatal error: Cannot read partition
Fatal error: Cannot read partition
Image not found.... try again
Any pointers in the right direction would be very gratefully
received - apologies if I haven't read the doc properly.
Best wishes,
Nigel
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