Re: Is it me, or are the disks not cool? (fwd)
Rich Sahlender wrote:
> > I am attempting a floppy installation onto my SparcStation IPX.
> > When I boot off of the rescue disk, it gets past the SILO boot
> > prompt, lets me hit return (I assume that is what I hit), then
> > dies with:
> > Read error on block 50
> >
> > Cannot find /linux (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in
> short read)
> >
> > Image not found.... try again
> >
> > ...and then kicks me back to the SILO boot prompt.
>
> I get the same thing on my IPX, but if I take the same disks and try them
> in an older Sparc 1 or 1+ they work just fine. Could this be a ROM version
> thing? I'm sure the ROM versions in the 1/1+ is 1.x_something but the IPX
> is 2.4. I have no trouble booting a rescue disk set on the IPX with serial
> console which I downloaded from vger some weeks ago...
Is the SILO code put on the disk dependent of the PROM version ?
I created the boot disk on a SparcClassic. It also works well on Sparc2.
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