Re: Floppy Installation on Sparcstation 1
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Ashok Gopalakrishnan wrote:
: Eric Delaunay wrote:
: >
: > Are you sure the root.bin file was written without errors on your floppy disk?
: > Can you read back out then try to compare it or gunzip it to test its
: > integrity?
: > Another suggestion: have you tried new floppy medium?
: > Hmm, how many memory your sparc1 has?
: >
: I tried with 3 floppy disks and they all behaved the same way.
: As you suggested, I did read off the floppy and compared it with the
: downloaded file. There were no errors. After gunzipping, there were still no
: errors in comparison.
:
: My sparc1 has 4 banks of 4MB each (total 16MB). While detecting the hardware,
: the memory is detected as follows:
: available 13856K, kernel 1028K, data 1140K.
:
: I added 'append="mem=16m"' to the silo.conf file on the floppy and it still
: detected only 13856K. Could this be a possible problem cause?
13856 + 1028 + 1140 = 16024. Not quite 16384, but close. The kernel
does have a memory footprint ...
: Also, before prompting for the root floppy, a warning message appears:
:
: floppy0 : Warning disk change called early
:
: Is this normal?
It always happened last time I tried an install, but I admit it's been a
while.
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