Andy Ruhl wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Joerg Stephan wrote:
> > i've got a little problem, and maybe there is somebody who can help.
> > I try to insatll NetBSD on an Sun Sparc IPX, but my Sun won't boot
> > from the cd-rom (which is an old external SCSI from IBM), the same
> > problem come up if i try to install solaris 2.5.
> > The cd boots a bit, then a lot of warnings which ends in a kernel
> > panic. Who knows an answer.
> 
> Are you sure the drive is OK? Does it work under normal, non booting
> conditions?

Is it a drive from a sun system?  It probably needs to support 512 byte
sectors in order to boot the IPX, many drives only support 2048 byte
sectors.

	David