On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Bertram Barth wrote:

> > > Can you boot from TK50 tape or is netbooting the only method supporte=
d for
> > > the 3100 M38?
> > >=20
> > AFAIK netbooting is so far the only alternative, but it can happen that
> > booting from SCSI TK50 also work. I do know for sure that booting from
> > 3=BD" floppy do not work.
>=20
> Just for interest: What doesn't work? Why doesn't it work?
>=20
> On my box I've no SCSI devices besides the internal disk, thus I never
> could try that. But I always thought that it should work without problems=
,
> since the bootblocks are rather machine-independant and device-i/o is don=
e=20
> by the machine's ROM routines.
>=20
> Or is it just a problem of the number of the boot-device which is not
> supported by current bootblocks? Do SCSI-floppy and SCSI-disk use the
> same BOOTDEV number?
>=20
> Ciao,
> =09bertram
>=20
would 'DKA500' be the boot number?

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