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Re: d-i oldworld mac: floppies fail on 4400/200 and 7200/75



On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:30:05PM +0200, Malte Cornils wrote:
> Hi Rick,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive.
> > 
> > In particular, if the boot floppy is ejected, it means that the 
> > firmware got an error trying to read it, or couldn't find the magic 
> > numbers in the magic places that it was expecting from a real-live 
> > Macintosh boot floppy.
> 
> The boot floppy is ejected after the miboot run (the little icon
> with the penguin) had finished and few more seconds (enough time for
> the kernel to boot and display the usual "insert root disk" message)
> have passed.  Floppy ejection at this point is normal and could also
> mean that the kernel boots fine, only that the local console is
> broken.

Can you tell me what kind of graphic those boxes do have, and i will
check the fbdev driver for those.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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