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From: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:04:44 +0000
Subject: Re: Boot Floppy
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> 
> I tried to make a boot floppy under DOS.
> Initializes floppy and write a "boot.img" by "RAWRITE.EXE". or
> make a boot floppy under UNIX with "fdformat" and "dd"
> 
> Then I boot a ULTRA30(Creater3D) with  the both floppy.
> But I can not booting.
> messages:
>     Bad Magic Number in label block
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Why??

No SMCC UltraSPARC machines are able to boot floppy AFAIK (only UltraAX/AXi
handle it).

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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