Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: >> On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us >> all: >> >--} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +0000, David Dawson wrote: >> >--} > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >--} > >> >--} > sbm (smart boot manager) >> >--} > It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd >> >to >> > a --} > floppy and use it to boot from. >> >--} >> >--} I have an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486 and smb did not work on it. >> >--} >> >--} Doug. >> >> I haven't followed this thread, so this might be a silly question? >> >> But you have checked that your BIOS seeks your floppy drive at startup? >> That is if you have SMB on floppy, or that you can boot from CDROM if you >> have SMB on a CD? >> > > Clarification: it will boot the floppy but it won't boot the CDROM. > > Doug. I get a "Disk error" from SBM on my P166, but if I retry it a time or two, it works. Persistence pays.
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