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Bug#64764: boot-floppies fails to recognize rescue disk on PS/2



Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.13

When I attempt to install potato via b-f, the rescue disk and root
disk load fine, however, when the time comes to "Load Operating
System and Modules", the system fails to recognize the rescue floppy. 

The rescue floppy used was tested on a working system to be byte-for-byte 
equal to rescue.bin. The problem persists in the newer versions, including
the pre-release 2.2.15 

The system is a IBM PS/2 Model 8556-3T2, Processor 486-SLC, with a 
1.44 floppy in it. 

a dmesg copy follows: 
Linux version 2.2.15 (herbert@gondor) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Tue Apr 25 17:13:48 EST 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2.46 BogoMIPS
Memory: 5624k/8448k available (1740k kernel code, 416k reserved, 528k data, 140k init)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
Page cache hash table entries: 2048 (order 1, 8k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: 486                                                                       
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. 
Checking for popad bug... OK.   
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: No PCI bus detected
Micro Channel bus detected.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 8192 bhash 8192)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS not found.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 16384K size                      
loop: registered device at major 7
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M   
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
sim710: No NCR53C710 adapter found.
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0 
qlogicisp : PCI not present
qlogicfc : PCI not present
eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver release still depends on it.
          Skipping scan for PCI HBAs.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
IBM MCA SCSI: Version 3.1e
IBM MCA SCSI: IBM Integrated SCSI Controller found, io=0x3540, scsi id=7,
              chip rev.=0, 8K NVRAM=accessible, subsystem=enabled.             
IBM MCA SCSI: Removing default logical SCSI-device mapping.
IBM MCA SCSI: Probing SCSI-devices.
IBM MCA SCSI: Mapping SCSI-devices.
IBM MCA SCSI: Device order: New Industry Standard (pun=0 is first).
megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) 
aec671x_detect: 
   NO PCI SUPPORT.
3w-xxxx: tw_scsi_detect(): No pci interface present.
scsi0 : IBM SCSI-Subsystem 
scsi : 1 host. 
  Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: FIREBALL540S      Rev: 1Q04
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1059091 [517 MB] [0.5 GB]
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2
VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
Duplicate request for module `net-pf-1'
Duplicate request for module `net-pf-1'
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)





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