[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I just download the file rescue.bin from the debian-sparc potato > distribution and try to install a linux potato system on ma sun IPX (I > take it from the directory sun3cdm/images-1.44). What happens it that > it would go as far as trying to load the system then display the > message > > Read error on block 73 > Unknown /linux image format > > (and there is no way to get out except by unplugging the cord !) > > I have tried to make a different rescue disk and even download again > this disk image, but always get the same error. > > My old rescue disk from slink works fine though, but I would like to > use the potato to save an upgradde. Besides, potato is now in freeze > so I though the boot disk would be at least in a working state
I get such error every now and then when testing bootdisks on my sparc2. AFAIK it could be related to bad medium and/or bad drive. It used to work just after a power up but one hour or so later it fails (slighty higher temperature inside the box?). Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a pas de problème. Devise Shadok.