--On Tue, Dec 1, 1998 1:01 pm -0700 "James Bielman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
