Bug#138715: [b-f sparc] sun4u floppies freeze at boot
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.21
Severity: serious
Machine: Sun Ultra 1/170, openboot v. 3.25
The b-f floppy-images for sun4u do not work at all.
The rescue image manages to boot a kernel but at the end it shows this
message:
floppy0 WARNING disk change called too early
Then it asks to put in the root-disk and press enter.
The rescue-disk is already ejected automatically (as it should be after
this question).
Putting in the root-disk and then pressing enter results in a total
freeze. No stop-a, no keyboard whatsoever, only power-cycle works.
It does still show all the messages the kernel has spewed out at boot and
the only odd thing in there is the lack of RTC (which AFAIK a sun doesn't
have, hence it shouldn't even be in the kernel). NIC, HDDs, SCSI, etc all
recognised.
Version 3.0.16 and 3.0.20 didn't work either for some reason or another,
but I was able to install the machine with the floppy-images created by
BenC carrying a version tag of 3.0.18. These were created somewhere last
november and put up at his homepage on auric.d.o
This bug likely only targets the Ultra 1s and 2s. 5 and up appear to have
a firmware bug that prevents them from booting from floppy altogether.
regards,
Thomas
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-- Robert Heinlein
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