TeRrAc (terrac@sharon.net)
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:22:15 -0700 (PDT)
So far nobody has had any luck to speak of booting from the new
installer.coff. There have been mixed results booting from the older
installers, and it makes me wonder how and why.
At this point we can be relatively sure that uts not truly hardware
related failures, (ie. the floppy drive not reading a floppy right) and we
are fairly certian that it is hardware specific to the ans machines.
When I trace my steps back to how my machine booted the floppy with the
older installer on it I remember I had just flushed the nvram by
unplugging the machine and removing the battery (hint take the top off of
the machine till we get all this done.. it saves loads of bending over and
unscrewing the case) it booted the floppy right away.. leading me to
believe, it either modifies itself in the pram or modifies the floppy
somehow. I may be just smoking crack but this is the best I can come up
with right now. I probably wont be able to substantiate this tomorrow (I
am gonna call in sick) but I wantto hear from you guys to know if thats
the cause. just in case. be prepared with the 2 external drives, 1 with
hfs and the redhat install the other clean and ready.
Tell me how it goes.
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