Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install
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On Monday 11 December 2006 21:14, you wrote:
> Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> > Just tried today's testing boot floppies along with a CG6
> > framebuffer, Sun monitor, and Sun Type5 keyboard. It still looks
> > like it needs more than one ENTER key press at the root disk prompt,
> > but it did continue the boot process.
>
> So the problem is not the enter key versus the keypad enter key, but
> rather that it needs to be pressed more than once?
>
> Were you able to complete the installation after loading the other
> floppies?
>
> P.S. Please type your replies below the text you quote (and delete any
> irrelevant text). That makes things much easier to read...
>
> It appears to work after pressing the Enter key on the number pad, then
> pressing the Enter key on the keyboard. I was able to duplicate this
> on the serial console as well. I get a ^M when I'm on the serial
> console after pressing the number pad Enter key.
OK. I doubt we'll have time to look into this before the release of Etch.
Nice to hear that floppies actually work. We've not had an installation
report for those in ages :-)
> I was able to complete an install once the root image loaded, but the
> esp module doesn't get loaded in the initial ramdisk image, so the
> system won't boot properly after install.
This should be fixed with current images. Would be nice if you could
verify.
> I have a small pile of sun4m machines (three SparcStation 5 systems,
> one SparcStation 20 w/dual SM71 processors), with floppies and CD-ROMs.
> I'd love to be able to run Debian on these, so anything I can do to
> help test stuff, please let me know. I also have a handful of SBus
> cards (various framebuffers, 100Mbit + Wide SCSI, and narrow SCSI).
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