From: ohland@charter.net   
      
   RPLBOOT.COM only "disables" the HD's primary partition, nothing on   
   reversing it.   
      
   Louis Ohland wrote:   
   > My DIMM memories suggest there is a utility to enable/disable RIPL.   
   >   
   > Must surf.   
   >   
   > Carlos Albuquerque wrote:   
   >> A quarta-feira, 6 de maio de 1998 à(s) 08:00:00 UTC+1, Louis Ohland   
   >> escreveu:   
   >>>  Brilliant comments from godlike intellects deleted.   
   >>>>>> Is there a listing of the procedure for replacing a SCSI drive for   
   >>>>>> this machine. I would think it should be straightforward, but since   
   >>>>>> this is a machine with an IML file (or whatever it's called) on disk   
   >>> The IBM HMM has the 9556 OB6 and OBA listed as IML.   
   >>> The 8556 14x, 24x, 043, 044, 055 are non-IML (supposedly)   
   >>> Not that IBM would EVER do something odd and not tell the customers....   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Hello,   
   >>   
   >> It is my first time here!   
   >> Just  to let you know that the 8556 24X is also IML   
   >> I have one. From the factory, it is medialess (without the hard drive   
   >> and floppy). It used a MCA network card or something like that to boot   
   >> and work.   
   >> But, in all of documentation that I read, It should be possible to   
   >> "convert" it to a "regular" PS/2 8556 56SX by adding the floppy and   
   >> the HDD.   
   >> So, I added both floppy (2.88MB) and a SCSI HDD, but I am having a lot   
   >> of trouble to restore (or should I say, create) an IML partition on HDD.   
   >> It is perfectly recognised by the tools in the reference disk, it   
   >> formats ok, but no IML restore...   
   >> It suspect that is because the HDD is 2GB in size. But it is the only   
   >> one that I have!   
   >>   
   >> Do you know if there is a way to make this a working machine?   
   >>   
   >> By the way, the boot is not possible not even from the floppy drive!   
   >> Because of the model 24X, it says that the boot is only possible from   
   >> the "network" card or from a SCSI drive with ID 6.   
   >>   
   >> Do you know if the ROM file is swapable by other model that do not   
   >> have this limitation?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Thanks a lot.   
   >>   
      
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