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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!199.171.20.9!news.nkn.net!news.panther.net!nemesis!hammy!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news3.crl.com!nntp2.crl.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!hub.org!news.radio.cz!eerie.fr!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: boot floppy problem Date: 28 May 1997 10:19:36 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 16 Message-ID: <9063D34A20C8F97F.6365E534054F47B7.AF7761C82717BD02@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <5mh0ro$cf1$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <ev67w58wcn.fsf@due.ii.uib.no> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6058 Magnus Y Alvestad (magnus@due.ii.uib.no) wrote: > I'm trying to boot the Adaptec kernel boot floppy on an ICL machine, > but I keep geting "ERROR: C:0 H:0 S:18". Could this be because the > floppy drive is a 2.88 drive? > It can be. I remember something about this in a NetBSD mailing list some time ago (someone wanted to install NetBSD on a laptop with such a drive). It should be possible to hack the boot blocks, but the best way would be to install a 1.44 drive if possible. -- Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --