Bug#401396: 20061202 - daily build for sparc32 floppy install
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:> 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 :-)
OK, played with this again tonight, and it takes four ENTERs to get the root floppy to mount. Doesn't matter about timing the ENTERs, (four quick taps of ENTER will get it going). This was with the ENTER key on a Sun5c keyboard, not touching the one on the number
pad.
> 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.
It has been verified. :-)
I first tried to boot my SS20 that contained a CG6 framebuffer and a Sun Wide-SCSI + 100Mbit NIC SBUS card, but it froze the system hard while loading the esp module. So, I pulled the SBUS board with the SCSI and NIC, and tried again. This time it detected all hardware, and did a successful installation.
Both boots I had to manually tell it to load the lance module for my
onboard NIC.
The 18GB SCSI drive was detected properly, and parted was able to use the entire drive.
I did see the following message on the fourth virtual terminal repeating while parted was doing its thing:
kernel: program parted_server is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
After the install, the system booted properly, and went straight to a login prompt without anything that looked like an error.
I'm going to see if this works on some of my SS5 systems now. :-)
Thanks!!!
--Dan
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