Linux and an old IBM PS/2 8570

From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
Date: Sun Jan 16 16:39:02 2005

John,

I'm not sure that booting off of the scsi is possible with the ESDI
setup present.

The special boot partition can be created elsewhere. You need the
Reference disk and the Diagnostic disk for your machine. Both should be
available on the Internet, do a Google search for MCA Mafia. Most of
the MCA Mafia hangs out at comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware in Usenet.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

John Boffemmyer IV wrote:

> The big thing is that it doesn't want to boot from SCSI.
> The other thing is that I've been told it has some sort of special
boot partition
> on the 60MB ESDI drive.
Received on Sun Jan 16 2005 - 16:39:02 GMT