Re: boot from floppy

From: rossi (valentinojr_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:11:27 -0300

Ulrich--nO--(dot)-sPAM--Link wrote:
> rossi wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to boot from a floppy and start AIX 5L installation
>> from the CDROM ?
>>
>>
>> I ask you this cause the CDROM i've got (I don't know if is Sony,
>> Ricoh or Plextor) is detected but don't boot AIX media.
>>
>> Is there a howto for this?
>>
>> where can I download the boot image?
>>
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> v. rossi
>>
> No.
> Only AIX up to 3.2.5 could be booted from floppy.
>
> Plextor 12x and 20x drives are known good,
>
> another aproach is booting from a SCSI tape or Ethernet.
> You don't need a complete mksysb tape, only the first two images of a
> mksysb tape. Should be about 3 - 5 MByte.
> The bootimage from a C10/C20/41x/42x or 25x should bring your machine up
> to reaching the installation media on /dev/cd0.
> You can build the tapeboot image and tapeinst image on every machine
> running 5.1.
>
>
> ---
> Uli
>
>

how can I boot from ethernet?
do you know where to find some howto/guide on this?

thanks again.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Help! Safe Mode Loop - Cannot Login
    ... boot in safe mode and my user account and password were not accepted. ... Boot your computer (with either Floppy or CDROM) using a program ... NTFS4DOS will mount the c:\ drive that contains boot.ini ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: program to map out weak HD sectors?
    ... >>> I don't have a floppy drive or bootable CDROM. ... Bios Date is 1998. ... can't boot from it. ...
    (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
  • Re: GRUB launch a CD?
    ... That --}> is if you have SMB on floppy, or that you can boot from ... CDROM if you have SMB --}> on a CD? ... it will boot the floppy but it won't boot the CDROM. ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: Help creating boot floppies
    ... the 14 floppy boot images from ... Formatted some IBM format 1.44Mb Verbatim MF @HD Datalife floppy disks as ... fd as first boot item in service mode and the ... My shop is looking at moving from VMS to AIX. ...
    (comp.unix.aix)
  • Re: Need to buy Windows to flash a BIOS?
    ... Both files fit on a floppy. ... Here you make a boot directory in the cdrom directory on your HD. ... The CDROM specification tells the computer when it boots to load the cdrom and look in a specific location for a specific type of file. ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)