Bug#49172: ["Nigel R. Armfield" <N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk>] Bug#49172: Boot problems
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> This sounds familiar -- anyone have a pointer here?
>
-- Start of included mail From: "Nigel R. Armfield" <N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk>
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: sparc
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry to bother you with this problem, but I cannot find
> answers elsewhere and I'm reaching the limits of my patience.
>
> I have not had any success at all booting a SPARC (IPX) from
> any of the rescue boot images that I have tried.
>
> I have tried a number of different floppies, formatted them
> and written them a number of times but all with the same result.
>
> At the Sparc boot prompt, I do a 'b floppy', the floppy
> fires-up, spells out 'SILO' one char at a time and then
> says:
>
> Fatal error: Cannot read partition
>
> Illegal or malformed device name
>
> Fatal error: Cannot read partition
>
> Fatal error: Cannot read partition
>
> Image not found.... try again
>
> Any pointers in the right direction would be very gratefully
> received - apologies if I haven't read the doc properly.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nigel
I have the same problem with my Sparc2 which can boot or not every now and
then. I suspect the problem is with the floppy drive itself because it succeed
to boot just after a powerup but fails after one hour working.
Could you try netboot instead?
Regards.
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