[SPARCbook] Re: Can't boot 3GX off the external SCSI floppy

[Michael Lorenz]

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Greetings !

> I've tried booting off both the Red Hat and
> NetBSD SPARC boot disks, using the following command:
> 
>         ok  boot /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd at 5,0

>         Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd at 5,0   File and args:
>         Can't read disk label.
>         Can't open disk label package
>         Type  help  for more information
>         ok
Try boot /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd at 5,2 since there seems to be no label
on the disk so the PROM should assume partition 2 as the entire disk (
at least it worked for me with a NetBSD 1.4 bootdisk )

bye
Michael
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