Booting an IPX from the Floppy Drive?
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 have tried this with quite a few floppies, so I don't think it's an actual
data error.
Sorry if this is a FAQ -- I scanned the archives but didn't see anything.
Thanks -
- James
--
=========================================================
James Bielman XMission Internet, Tech Support
jamesjb@xmission.com http://www.xmission.com/help
Voice: 801/539-0852 x117 Fax: 801/539-0853
Toll-Free: 1-877-XMISSION Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
PGP Public Key URL: http://www.csharp.net/pgp.txt
PGP Fingerprint: 2A73 2FC0 5A12 0A8C 9040 4ABE 88D6 892A
Reply to: