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[Eric Weese <weese@cpu2536.adsl.bellglobal.com>] Bug#43116: Sparc boot floppy doesn't eject

Can anyone on the Debian SPARC list confirm or deny this bug?  If
confirmed, this seems like a crippling, critical bug in the SPARC
boot-floppies.
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.1.8.1-1999-03-01

When attempting to boot off of resc1440-2.2.1.bin, the kernel prompts
for a root disk, but does not eject the current floppy.  This results
in 

floppy0: io-port xxxxx in use

and then the kernel panics because it cannot mount the root filesystem.

Ejecting the floppy from boot monitor does not fix the problem.

I replaced the default kernel with one that I cross-compiled from
2.2.10 sources, and everything worked fine.  This seems to indicate
that the problem is with the kernel.

Was the ROOT_DEV specified correctly in the top level Makefile?

The machine in question is an Axil 320 with 64MB RAM, and ROM 2.19


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