On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:37:26AM -0800, Taro Fukunaga wrote: > I am trying to get my PowerCenter 120 with OF 1.0.5 to boot Potato from > a floppy disk. I already have Debian installed on this machine and it > works fine with BootX. I have successfully accessed OF via a second > computer through a printer cable (ttyb) and I use the output device as > /bandit/ATY,XCLAIM3DPro so it displays OF full-screen on my monitor. I you should be able to setenv output-device kbd or keyboard and use the console keyboard... > am using a modified SystemDisk from the NetBSD project to get into this. > However, when i copied vmlinux.gz to a msdos floppy in Linux and try to > boot off of it using the 'boot fd' command, I get the message "can't > load from this device". (As a side note, > eject fd ejects my floppy > disk -- cool!) Internal hard disk is connected to 2930 Ultra-SCSI card. > I have heard from NetBSD people that this is not bootable so that is why > I am trying a floppy disk. I am using kernel 2.2.18 downloaded and > compiled from ftp.kernel.org. I booted Linux off a floppy on this > machine about 3 years ago using LinuxPPC; floppy drive spun up much > faster than my hard disk so OF didn't time out (I didn't know that > timeout values could be programatically fixed at the time). I am not > using quik. when I type boot fd, I can hear the floppy drive doing > something. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might succeed? im not really sure on this but you might need to use an XCOFF image instead of elf for this.. do you still have an OF readable disk attached? if so you might be able to put a /boot partition on that (ext2fs) and install quik there (with a bit of screwing around...) then you should be able to quik boot from that. i wonder if quik can be installed on a floppy.. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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