Subject: Re: Boot Floppy Test
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.futureone.com>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/17/1997 00:40:19
As Tim Rightnour wrote...
> On 15-Dec-97 Curt Sampson spoke unto us all:
> # 
> # Is there someone out there who's booted the NetBSD-1.3_BETA boot
> # floppy successfully? Unfortunately, I've lost an important disk
> # drive at home which has brought down my entire network, so I have
> # no access to my Alphas to test anything at this point. I'd really
> # like to confirm that it's just Tim's multia, and not the boot
> # floppies, that are broken.
> # 
> 
> I'd blame just about anything on my multia... but the srm console is saying no
> boot sector on disk sec. 0.  The OLD ALPHA boot floppy from 1105 works fine..
> still..  The other person CC'd in the mail I initially sent you informed me of
> the floppy problem, and I tried it too before sending it to you..
> 
> For once it's NOT my multia.  everything else is though.. ;)

In case anybody is wondering: I handed back my borrowed Multia. One of my
colleagues has it now at home to run NT (shudder..) on it. So unfortunately
I cannot try the new floppy images on a Multia.

I now have a Noname.

Wilko
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