> | Try downgrading your firmware to the BeOS 3.1 level - you'll end up with
> | a decent firmware, which accepts to boot from diskettes anytime.
> 
> That sounds like good bet - anyway, my firmware, which does boot from
> floppy, is in fact not up to date.
> 
> In case it isn't clear what we're talking about, the firmware upgrade
> is a floppy disk that installs a new boot ROM.  If you don't have the
> floppy at hand, you can get it from Be:
> ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/beos_updates/r3/bebox/bebox_bootrom_r3.2.img.zip

Cool.  Thanks.  It did recognize this floppy and "upgrade" to 3.2.
I presume that it was running 5.0.

In any case, inst_vga.fs is now booting!

Now I need to find some cat-5 so I don't have to keep moving the cable
around...  :-)

Thanks a lot!
-allen

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