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- Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:51 pm
- Forum: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting
- Topic: Booting Unix: "Bad decode table"
- Replies: 9
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Hi Victor! Ahhh! This makes sense. It explains completely why the image appears to be corrupt. As soon as the kernel begins to load, it is perhaps being loaded *over* the image of the diskette. I had a try with BCDW... this gets much further before failing. (Loads the entire kernel, but can't start ...
- Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:39 am
- Forum: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting
- Topic: Booting Unix: "Bad decode table"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 26357
Hi Piney, I just followed the instructions. I copied boot.img into /custom; custom.cfg was already there, already set to load an image from that location, so I didn't change custom.cfg at all. I didn't know there were switches. Where are they documented? After you mentioned these two, I found them i...
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:14 pm
- Forum: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting
- Topic: Booting Unix: "Bad decode table"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 26357
Hi! Thanks, but yes, the image does read the kernel and rootFS images in VMware. But as I say, I hit the problems with the floppy driver in the kernel being incompatible with the floppy drive emulation in VMware. So, the image is fine. It appears that UBCD is not delivering the SCO boot-loader with ...
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:51 am
- Forum: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting
- Topic: Booting Unix: "Bad decode table"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 26357
Booting Unix: "Bad decode table"
Hi! I'm trying to use UBCD to boot SCO OpenServer in VMware. The version of OpenServer I have does not boot from CD, and must boot from floppy. Unfortunately, a problem with the SCO floppy driver in this version renders it compatible with VMware (boot prompt appears, loads kernel and ramdisk image, ...