Linux and an old IBM PS/2 8570

[Chad Fernandez]

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.