Sarge CD and floppies fail to boot on system that Woody boots on
Greetings,
I have an ALR 6x6 system (which I'll describe below in further detail)
which is currently running Woody (i386). I want to wipe it clean and
start over with Sarge.
This system boots a Woody (3.0r1/i386) install CD I burned just fine.
However, the SCSI controller in this system does not recognize the Sarge
CD I burned (3.0r0a/i386) as being bootable. I have verified that the CD
is bootable, as I can boot fine from it on other systems. Also, I can
read this Sarge CD in the drive on the ALR when it has already booted off
the HD.
In addition, I have tried booting the ALR from the Sarge i386 'boot'
floppy. While the system does *not* complain that the floppy "is not a
system disk", after accessing it for a few seconds it continues as if
there is no floppy disk in the drive at all.
So I'm at a bit of a loss here. Anyone have any idea what the deal is or
if there is anyone who I should contact directly about this?
Thanks!
Hardware Details:
This system has 6 200mhz PPros and 1GB RAM, though that shouldn't matter.
The SCSI controller is an AIC-7880U, and the CD drive is a Plextor 12x.
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Dan@Moore.cx
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