Bug#49172: marked as done ([cvs-fixed] problems with floppy booting on sun4c)
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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
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Subject: bugs closed in boot-floppies 2.2.18
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 21 Nov 2000 00:26:01 -0500
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The bug you filed against the boot-floppies package has been closed in
the most recent boot-floppies, 2.2.18, now in Potato (for i386
anyhow). The changelog for that version is included.
Please let us know if you still have the problem, even in the newest
version.
Thank you for helping Debian build a better installation systenm.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
boot-floppies (2.2.18) stable; urgency=low
.
* build with Debian 2.2r1 plus updates (closes: Bug#77459)
* Adam Di Carlo:
- i386 and sparc use kernel 2.2.18pre21
(closes: Bug#77425)
- Makefiles: clean is a bit cleaner
- release.sh (i386): also put kernel configs in TOP/<flavor> (hey,
it's a small file); don't leave stranded release/kernel-config file,
put it in the bf-common tarball
- rootdisk.sh: add pcd0 device mknod (closes: Bug#74322), which
MAKEDEV doesn't know about; add gscd and cm206cd devices; remove
some hacks on device creation due to bugs fixed in MAKEDEV
- dbootstrap: quiet bootarg makes more things shut up; disable the
check for root filesystem being on extended partition while LILO is
going on the MBR, because LILO supports this now (closes: Bug#64823);
add new fullscreen_execlog utility function
- debian/control: add Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep
(closes: Bug#70387); remove required package from depends
- documentation: fix links to dselect-beginner (closes: Bug#72870);
add a section in the first chapter talking about where to get Debian
(closes: Bug#71532); other corrections (closes: Bug#70871); fix
linux history link (closes: Bug#76408); enable Polish and Russian
documentation now that newer debiandoc-sgml is in Potato; give
example TFTP file name on SPARC (closes: Bug#40775); mention
problems with booting from IPX (closes: Bug#49172); when reporting
bugs on i386, you must report the flavor
* Josip Rodin:
- documentation: update non-US package numbers
* Eric VanBuggenhaut: French updates
* Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>:
- Polish updates
- documentation/doc-check script added to help translators stay
up-to-date
- LANGUAGE_CHOOSER integration (closes: Bug#31865) detailed
descriptions follow
.
NOTE: i18n integration is not quite complete, but it is very very
close; it has specifically been kept out of the mainline
version due to some bugs which are expected to be fixed shortly
.
- moved bf-utf from its module to utilities, modified relevant files
accordingly
- Makefile: added conditional build time depends on libpng2-dev
and libpopt-dev
- rootdisk.sh: uses LANGUAGE_CHOOSER for compact and idepci i386 flavors,
in which case it: uses more blocks, adds fb0 ptyp ptyq ptyr ptys
devices, includes a font for bterm, includes a wrapper 'udbootstrap'
and modifies inittab accordingly, includes libutf8_plug.so, bterm,
all messages files, lc-enabled dbootstrap
removed redundand '$' from awk invocations
- utilities/bogl/Makefile: added bterm's font reduction to build process
- utilitise/dbootstrap/Makefile: added rules necessary for creation of
'dbootstrap-lc' - a language-chooser enabled dbootstrap, added configure
runs to generation of libnewt and libslang
- utilities/dbootstrap/po/Makefile: build both normal and utf messages
files by default
- added removal of necessary files to clean rules
* Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates
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