Re: Booting an IPX from the Floppy Drive?

[Jeffrey Ebert <ebert@sonicsinc.com>]

James Bielman wrote:


> However, I can't get the rescue floppy (resc1440.bin) to boot -- both images
> from ftp.debian.org fail after the SILO prompt like so:
> 
> ROM Rev. 2.4 [etc, etc]
> ok boot /fd
> Boot device: /fd   File and args:
> SILO boot: [enter]
> 
> Read error on block 50
> Cannot find /linux (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
> read)
> Image not found.... try again
> 

I experienced the same thing with a SS2. I eventually punted on the
floppy and did a net boot. Someone is working on new boot floppies, so
perhaps you could test them out?

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Jeffrey Ebert                                 ebert@sonicsinc.com
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