Subject: Re: NetBSD on a IBM PS/2 57 SX
To: Bert Rodiers <bert@nescio.info>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/20/2003 22:46:52
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 09:55:31PM +0100, Bert Rodiers wrote:
> Dear NetBSD-specialists,
> 
> I have an old IBM PS/2 57 SX with a MCA bus and 8 MB RAM that I want to
> reanimate. I tried to install NetBSD 1.6 for the i386 architecture (the
> boot-ps2.fs boot-disk), but when I a start the computer with this boot-disk
> I always get: "Boot fail". I copied the image on different disks (with
> rawrite32) but each time I get the same error message.
> 
> Can somebody give me some advice how I could make this work? (I also tried
> the normal boot-disks, then the loading of the image starts, but after at a
> moment nothing seems to happen anymore).

Could be that you floppy drive has problems.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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