-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 1 September 2002 12:54, William Law wrote: > Hey All, > Have created the boot floppies (rescue, drivers 1, drivers 2) and > tried getting my sparc ipc to boot from them. below is the message > that it returned to me (initiated via serial): > > ok boot fd()linux > Booting from: fd(0,0,0)linux > Can't read disk label. > Can't read boot blocks. > Boot load failed > ok > > I have also tried booting from cdrom, but it cracks it (bad magic > numbers, etc). > > Can anyone shed any light on this?
first : use brand new floppies... and then : - -open your IPC, - -remove the floppy, - -remove the floppy cover, - -make some house cleaning, remove dust... - -use isopropylic alcohol to gently clean both heads. - -wait for complete evaporation... - -put the floppy cover in its place... - -mount the floppy... - -and : go ! :-) It worked for my own dirty IPC (dust, metalic powers, pigeons drops... retired from an open space plant...) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9dkcDXc2LFmEfhXcRAkrjAJ4sHcoQ26KNsDPRYmi0g2KK7j0KoQCglAMZ Y9byd8qTvLYS2lWR0lzswD0= =3UPL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----