Bug#125877: boot-floppies: [alpha] Unable to mount rescue floppy after http d/l to nfs root
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.17-2001-11-20
Severity: important
I was able to boot (tftpboot.img) and mount the NFS root with no problems.
rescue.bin and drivers.tgz are downloaded from the mirror and placed in
/tmp on the NFS root, but then I get the following error:
Unable to mount the rescue floppy. You may have inserted the wrong floppy.
Please try again.
I have not found any way to work around the problem and have thus been
unable to install debian on this machine (hence important).
cat'ing rescue.bin to /dev/ram and mounting /dev/ram works fine so I suspect
this is something trivial, but I wouldn't know where to start re finding
and fixing it myself.
Other 'messages' which may be interesting:
Mounting /dev/ram on /floppy failed: no such device (x2)
Mounting /dev/ram on /floppy failed: invalid argument (x2)
Mounting /dev/ram on /floppy failed: no such device (x1)
In case it matters, the alpha boxes in question are multias with no disk
devices and v3.8-3(?) firmware (not that this is necessarily relevant!)
- samj
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