Bug#79004: SPARC/Potato] 'Wrong disk' message even though correct disk in drive
Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org> writes:
> Quoting Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>:
> > I'm fairly certain this is not a sparc issue, or atleast that it has
> > nothing to do with anything I changed. For the latest set, I just used a
> > newer kernel, and the latest boot-floppies source.
>
> I see. Might the problem be in dbootstrap then? Or is the driver floppies
> created wrongly?
I dunno. All I call offer is that it works fine for the i386 version.
> A problem with the floppy splitting?
I doubt that.
> When "less'ing" the drivers-1.bin file, the first line(s) reads
>
> ----- s n i p -----
> Floppy split 0.1^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@h^@^@^C<A8>drv14-sun4cdm^@^C<A4>^@^@^C<94>
> ^@^@^@h^@^@^Cd^@^@^C`^@^@^Ad^@^@^@^Cp^B<9F><B0>^@^A^C<FC>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^<F0>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^Cp^@^B<F8><EF>
> <FF><F3>`1564409^@p^B<8C><BC><EF><FF><F11474048^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@1^@^@^@<EF><FF>
> ----- s n i p -----
>
> So somehow it seems like the it's a problem with 'utilities/floppy_split' (in
> the boot-floppies source)...
>
>
> Is there any woody disks availible somewhere?
No such thing.
> This is my first and only SPARC installation, so I have no chanse of making this
> stuff my self, so I would appreciate if someone could help me with a correct
> set of disks. I'd do it myself, and post a patch if I could... :)
Hmm.
You said the message was:
>
> > > Wrong disk!
> > > This is disk 1 of 2 in the drv14-sun4cdm series of 27-Nov-2000 13:18 EST.
> > > Wrong disk. This is from series drv14-sun4cdm. You need disk 1 of series
> > > the driver series.
However, that's not possible that that was the message, looking at the
code. I need the literal message that was printed. The output should
also be in /var/log/messages, if you are able to cat that to a floppy
and copy it over.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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