Subject: Re: Problems booting 6500 from cd.
To: Alazel Acheson <alazel@frazel.com>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/17/2005 13:03:38
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:03:20PM -0800, Alazel Acheson wrote:
>   On the 6500:
>     OF version is 2.0.3

I don't know about the 6500, but I had no luck booting from anything but
floppy or internal hard disk on the PowerBook 3400 with OF 2.0.1.

> The floppy drive in this machine is very flaky, and mostly doesn't work, so
> I haven't tried a floppy boot yet.

Ouch.  My only suggestion is to try a thorough cleaning of the floppy
drive with new floppies, writing the floppies on the same drive that
you'll be reading from.  This (finally) worked for me on my PB3400.

-allen

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