Re: Problems booting Slink

[eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin)]

> (Is it possible to dd the boot floppy onto a spare hard disc partition
> then boot from there with appropriate arguments to SILO? This is the

It is a little trickier than that because you need *two* floppies.
Check the debian-sparc archives for my comments on doing this with a
zip disk, the approach would be the same with any scsi disk that works
at all with the boot prom you're using (basically, dd the boot disk,
dd skip=offset the ramdisk, then boot it and use the "linux sd(...)[offset...]"
syntax.)  I'd give more details here but I'm at the IETF now which
means I have fast access to the rest of the net, but I'm on the wrong
side of the 28.8 link to thok.org :-)