Bug#118669: boot-floppies: potato/woody/sid install fail to start on SparcStation2/10
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Okay, I moved a floppy drive from the SS2 to the SS10 and the SS10
booted. The SS2 does not boot with the same disk drive.
Warren
On Friday 09 November 2001 10:11 am, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Warren Turkal <wturkal@cbu.edu> writes:
> > > > On the 2, it gets to SILO. When you press enter to start the
> > > > install, it proceeds to uncompress the kernel. It then fails
> > > > with something like IDPROM: failed reading format. The 10
> > > > claims that it cannot find a sun boot label or something like
> > > > that and does not even get to SILO. I tried this on two
> > > > different sparc2's and one sparc10. One Sparc2 had 32 mb RAM,
> > > > and the other has 64 mb RAM. I don't know about the sparc10.
> > >
> > > Which image were you using? I believe you're supposed to use the
> > > sun4cdm images, but the documentation should make that clear.
> >
> > I used sun4cdm images. Both woody and potato disks failed.
>
> Interestingly, I confirmed that other people with ss10 are able to
> use the boot-system sucessfully.
>
> Can anyone here on the debian-sparc list offer help to this user, and
> what, if anything, we can do in the boot-floppies sources to fix this
> problem (or at least document it) ?
>
> If you need more info, see bug 118669.
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