Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: (Please always reply to the bug report rather than individual persons.)
It looks like the message I replied to was not CC'd to the mailing list. I'll make sure to CC the list from now on.
On Monday 11 December 2006 21:14, you wrote:
> Frans Pop 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'll download the newest images tonight and see how things go.
I'm new to the whole Debian community, so I apologize if my postings are in the wrong mailing lists and such. I'll probably switch to a different mail account with a real mail client tonight, so it'll be easier to format replies and keep things organized.
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