Booting a Pro 350 from Floppies

[Securix]

Hi all,

I'm trying to make Venix floppies for my Pro 350 but have no idea if the disks I made with Teledisk are working. The disk I understand that is supposed to boot is called the XFER disk, which seems to have written properly with Teledisk 2.15B.

The Pro 350 powers on, then prints a small diagram of itself with some status codes and a picture of a small floppy disk and "?" under it but does not boot from the floppies. I can see the RX50 being tested on power up with the LED flashing for a second or two, but after that it doesn't do anything else.

Is there a special key or combination to press to force it to boot from floppies?

Thanks.

 

[Securix]

Figured it out finally. Teledisk was making unusable floppies with standard IBM 5.25 drives, both 360K and 1.2MB. Finally thought to stick an actual RX50 on a clone Pentium board, converted the td0 images to imd and used Imagedisk to make perfect disks on DSDD floppies with the RX50. Just sticking the boot disk in the upper RX50 drive and powering up will boot up fine.

At last, Venix lives!