Re: Booting an IPX from the Floppy Drive?
--On Tue, Dec 1, 1998 1:01 pm -0700 "James Bielman" <jamesjb@xmission.com>
wrote:
> Having recently inherited a Sun IPX to sit on the corner of my desk, of
> course, I have to install Debian on it. :-)
>
> 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 also had exactly this problem, on 2 different SS2s, with all the floppies
I tried.
There is a real problem here... (I went for the net-boot approach).
Jules
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