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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...)
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