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. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
