[s-x86] Re: Failed boot from floppy

[Michael Riley <mikeri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 05:15:31 -0800
> From: "Peter Haydon" <peter.haydon2@xxxxxxx>
> To: solarisonintel@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [s-x86] Failed boot from floppy
> 
> Booting from floppy on my system gives me:
> 
>    "Cannot locate boot.bin"
> 
> and I have to quit. Viewing the floppy under WinNT shows me
> that the file in question is in the "Solaris" directory.
> 
> Is my system so incompatible that I'm not going to succeed ?
> It's a TMC m/b with AMD K6-2/450, 128Mb RAM, 3 IDE drives and
> a TEAC 6-CD changer, 3.5inch floppy and 5.25inch floppy.
> 
> Anyone know what's going on ?
> 
> TIA,
> Peter

You may have a bad floppy.  Did you try reading the file under NT?

You can find floppy images at:
    http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/DeviceConfig7.html

Try downloading the same version and creating your own floppy.  Assuming
you are not talking about Solaris 8 here.

BTW - At best your CD changer will only work with CD 0 or maybe whatever
CD was last loaded.  Solaris does not support CD changers.

Mike


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