[SPARCbook] RedHat 6.0 boot floppies on sparcbook... can't load root disk image

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 13 Sep 1999, William M. Perry wrote:

> Anybody seen this one?  I cannot boot using 'boot floppy' or 'boot
> /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/fd at 5,0' - says no device found.  Booting from sd at 5,0 
> works for the boot floppy, and I see:

It's not a floppy (fd), it's a SCSI disk (sd) that happens to be 1.44mb,
and that's your problem.

The boot floppies don't deal with that case. I used tftp to do my download

-D