[Maybe OT] A/UX installation

From: Brian Wheeler <bdwheele_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Tue Feb 12 10:39:32 2002

On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 21:16, Doc wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2002, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>
> > When I try to boot up on a IIci, the floppy works ok, and it starts to
> > search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I
> > pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to
> > figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation)
> > and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it
> > wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable?
>
> Not necessarily. I made my CD in Linux too, and it works. But the
> list of supported drives is about 5. I've had luck with the Apple 300i,
> but none at all with the 600, and luck with an RRD42. Period. My
> Toshiba-which-will-even-boot-VMS won't find the CD in A/UX.
>
> Doc


hehe, the toshiba cd I tried was one of those "yeeha! it'll work with
VMS" drives ;)

After doing a bit more poking and prodding, I grabbed "pdisk" which
comes with linux/mac and it prints out the partition tables of the
attached scsi devices. it looks like the disk was written correctly
since when it scans the scsi bus, it finds a valid mac partition table
w/7 partitions....so the CD is ok.

Anyone know if it is possible to write the disk image (raw) to a disk
and get AUX to boot from that?

Brian
Received on Tue Feb 12 2002 - 10:39:32 GMT